“The black sun of melancholy”1
Desolate landscapes, sad, nervous faces, golds rising from gray dawns or black twilights… Todd Hido’s new pictures are imbued with melancholy. Bare timber struggling in the mist, fallen timber blown down by the wind, abandoned horizons and roads… it's the solitude (of beings and of nature) that emanates from these landscapes that might be linked to a new dark romanticism. A really cinematographic lyricism, nevertheless: mixing his portraits and his landscapes, the American photographer permits us to enter into their intimacy and to think about the narrative hyperlinks that would connect them… Also very cinematographic, the viewpoint of the windscreen of his automotive (typically fogged up or sparse with drops of water) that the photographer often chooses to adopt: stemming from his long solitary wanderings seeking the picture that may “make a picture” by means of its beauty and strangeness, this truncated panorama framing evokes the nonetheless photographs taken from films to arouse confusion and arouse curiosity. Similarly, the distinction between pure and synthetic mild, which Hido plays with a Lynchian audacity…
1Gérard de Nerval’s well-known oxymoron from his Chimeres (1854)
Todd Hido – The Black Mechanism
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