Genre is a slippery thing – is there a set borderline between fiction and nonfiction? While nonfiction is often defined by fidelity to fact and logical cohesion, the genre has a companion history of texts that use the fragmentary, suggestive, and inconclusive. There are essays that destabilize unwavering narration, logical progression, and rhetorical coherence. Creative nonfiction is an elastic genre.
Like in really good photography, you start to wonder: is it true or is it fiction – ?
Todd Hido: Untitled #2621, 2000
Todd Hido (born 1968, Kent, Ohio) is an American contemporary artist and photographer. Currently based in San Francisco. Deeply interested in the topic of housing in the United States, Todd Hido’s large, colored photographs of American suburbia emphasize feelings of isolation and anonymity. Hido’s images have a very narrative, almost cinematic quality to them
Nice! I like his photos a lot. I love walking around at night in my neighborhood and seeing how lighting changes my impressions of the houses. These photos capture those same feelings I get.
His images are in a way very simple, but still captures an abundance of emotions, I find them very attractive.