45 Last Words / Ikebana I-II Close-Up Magic I-II Weltraumfahrt I-IV Arrangiert in schönen Gefässen Special Editions Todd Hido was approached by

Todd Hido was approached by elementary school art instructor Wilhelm Matthies about using his photographs in class for the students to work from as a source of inspiration for some of their own exercises

which is why I felt the need to capture them in photographs

The “houses” act less like plans for actual houses to be built

Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award

By challenging representations of the territory

45 Last Words / Ikebana I-II Close-Up Magic I-II Weltraumfahrt I-IV Arrangiert in schönen Gefässen Special Editions Todd Hido was approached byThe book consists of two parts: Part 1 From a collection of 45 books with titles such as The Last Word, Last Words (or equivalent), the last word on the last page was taken out and placed on a blank double page. Then follows the bibliography of the books were the words were taken from. Part 2 Made up of photographic works showing the last, the first pages or the backs of books. The photographic work has a different aspect ratio than the book pages of