Please join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday, August 16th, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM as they welcome iconic photographer Todd Hido to celebrate the release of his updated and expanded Aperture monograph Intimate Distance, Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album. In addition to signing copies, he will engage in a discussion of the book and his work with fellow Bay Area artist Marina Luz.

“Well known for his photography of landscapes and suburban housing, and for his use of detail and luminous color, acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido casts a distinctly cinematic eye across all that he photographs, digging deep into his memory and imagination for inspiration. Newly revised and expanded, Intimate Distance: Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album includes ten years of new work since the book’s first publication, among them new images from his travels to Iceland, Norway, and Japan. Though Hido has published many smaller monographs of individual bodies of work, this gathers his most iconic images, along with several unpublished works, to provide the most complete and comprehensive monograph charting his career. The book is organized chronologically, showing how his series overlap in exciting ways. David Campany introduces the work and looks at the kind of cinematic spectatorship that Hido’s images demand. Katya Tylevich muses on the making of each of his major monographs, writing, “The photographs lead as far as human-made roads go. They reach the periphery of utility wires, footprints, and paths already taken.” From exterior to interior, surface observations to subconscious investigations, landscapes to nudes, and from America to beyond, this midcareer collection reveals how Hido’s unique focus has developed and shifted over time. Assembled collectively in this volume, his familiar and new images demonstrate how the tension between distance and intimacy that he explores has remained constant throughout his practice.”

A brand new, most handsome example of the newly updated and expanded edition of this vital document.

If you cannot attend and would like to purchase your very own signed copy of Intimate Distance, please place your order here!

320pp, 324 illustrations in color and b&w. Designed by Bob Awfuldish, Awfuldish & Warriner.

Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) is a San Francisco Bay Area–based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Elephant, Foam, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of over fifty museums, including the Getty Center, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has authored over a dozen books, including House Hunting (2001), Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013), Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (Aperture, 2014), and The End Sends Advance Warning (2024). Hido is also an avid photobook collector with a library of over 8,500 titles.

Marina Luz is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Vice, and ProPublica, among other publications. She runs her illustration and design studio Honeylux out of Oakland, California.