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Bay Area photographer Todd Hido suggests the presence of absence in his
color-saturated, nocturnal photographs of houses. Nocturnal photography
has a long history: as early as 1847, a St. Louis photographer recorded
lightning on a daguerreotype plate. By the beginning of the 20th century,
photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz found particular interest in the
city as subject, expanding the domain of nocturnal photography to conceptual
ideologies. Hido's nocturnal investigations of the home participate in the
ongoing photographic dialogue of the physical and psychological effects
of night. He was an artist in residence at the Kemper Museum. This is his
first solo museum exhibition in the Midwest. |
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