About the Author

Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the 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, as well as in many other public and private collections. He has published over a dozen books, including House Hunting (2001), Roaming (2004), and Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013). He is an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts. Gregory Halpern received a BA in history and literature from Harvard University, and an MFA from California College of the Arts. In 2014, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has published six books of his work: Harvard Works Because We Do (2003), A (2011), East of the Sun, West of the Moon (in collaboration with Ahndraya Parlato, 2014), ZZYZX (2016), Confederate Moons (2018), and Omaha Sketchbook (2019). He is coeditor of The Photographer’s Playbook (with Jason Fulford, Aperture, 2014) and teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.

Reviews

“Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and The Nude is a witty, knowledgeable book that demonstrates the art of photography and the process of photographic creation, and thoroughly contextualizes the work of the great American contemporary photographer, Todd Hido.” —Musee Magazine

"As a reading experience, the books feel more like monographs with expansive captions than generic how-to guides." —Eye Magazine

“Aperture’s Photography Workshop series has taken the creative approaches, teachings and insights of the world’s top photographers and distilled them into affordable and essential volumes. Let Alex Webb, Mary Ellen Mark, Todd Hido and Larry Fink help get your creative gears spinning.” —Juxtapoz