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(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Oakland, CA & Portland, OR: B-Sides Box Sets & Nazraeli Press, 2014. First Edition 1/500. 16mo. Loose Plates in Plexiglas Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 50 loose 2 ½ x 3 ½" cardstock sheets printed offset recto and verso, 47 illustrations in color and b&w. Designed by Bob Awfuldish. "All photographers have a secret stash of photographs that float on the margins of published existence. Photographs that never quite fit into their current projects or are waiting to become the narrative of their next book or show, but that are too good to be left unused. They persist: the photographers pull them out, year after year, they recognize them as great images that should be shared, but the photos somehow frustratingly defy their years of shuffling into categorization or conventional use. This box set is those photographs, finally liberated from that file labeled "Orphans & Misfits". Todd Hido's first B-Sides Box Set, "Silver Meadows", is a follow-up publication to the artist's award-winning 2013 monograph "Excerpts from Silver Meadows". Designed to function as a companion to that title as well as a sovereign object in its own right, the selection includes alternate images that didn't make it into the book, as well as variations of images that did. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the photographer selects and arranges images in book form. 'Making good and interesting pictures is only half of what it takes to make a memorable visual book,' Hido explains. 'The way one organizes images to create a narrative sequence also plays an important role in creating something that people want to pick up and take home". A brand new, most handsome example of this charming little set of fifty collector-type trading cards additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Todd Hido" in silver ink on the title card housed in the publisher's Plexiglas box, as issued. 1-59005-409-1 Inventory Number: 026720