Hotshoe #214
165 x 230 mm, 192 pages
London, UK
Biannual
Since 1977
Publisher: Wendy Ehst
Editor: Melissa DeWitt
Design: Duncan Whyte
‘Cutting edge photography’
This long-running, well-respected photography publication is (in its current form) a gorgeous little thing. Bookish in size and appearance, it’s neat, highly visual (as you’d expect), and its carefully curated imagery is immediately alluring.
This latest edition is a collaboration with the prolific American photographer Stephen Shore, best known for his groundbreaking ‘diaristic’ approach and ‘his influence on conceptual colour photography’, as well as his documentation of Andy Warhol and The Factory in the latter half of the 1960s. Inside, nocturnal landscape photographer Todd Hido speaks with Shore about the difference between his approach to archive work and more recent photography, they debate whether narrative exists in a photograph, and Shore reflects on his exploration of transforming three-dimensional spaces into two-dimensional images that still preserve the environment’s essence.
Featuring a carefully curated selection of projects spanning over six decades, highlights include the intimate series ‘Ginger’, capturing the early moments shared with his now wife; the busy intersections of New York City in the early 2000s, shot in a super-wide black and white format; a vibrant series called ‘Yucatán’, exploring the crossover of tradition and innovation in the rural Mexican state; plus, ‘Instagram’, recording the artist’s decade-long experimentation with the app.