Dead Ringer — Yael Eban & Matthew Gamber. Published by TBW Books.
One of those rare books that forces you to stop in your tracks and set aside all distractions in order to deeply look at the details of the images contained within. Dead Ringer shows multiple copies of images printed from the same negative, but with curious variations in cropping, color, scale, and wear that marks the different journeys that each physical copy has taken. A book that actually forces you to focus on details is a true gift in the day and age that we live in where our thumbs constantly scroll past things without our skills of perception being fully engaged.
Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) wanders endlessly, taking lengthy road trips in search of imagery that connects with his own memories. Through his unique landscape process and signature color palette, Hido alludes to the quiet and mysterious side of suburban America — where uniform communities provide for a stable façade — implying the instability that often lies behind the walls. His photographs are in many private and public collections, including at the Getty, Whitney Museum of American Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Pier 24 Photography holds the archive of all of his published works. Hido has published more than a dozen books, including the award-winning monographs House Hunting (2001) and Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013), as well as innovative B-Sides Box Sets, which function as companion pieces to his books. His Aperture titles include Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (2014) and Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs (2016). His latest book is Bright Black World (2018). His newest publication, The End Sends Advance Warning, was released in November. Hido is also a collector, and over the last twenty-five years has created one of the most notable photobook collections, which was featured in Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books (2019).