My graduation thesis was basically 50 pages on the Shining, liminal spaces, and the uncanny valley; so I can feel confidant in saying: great fucking video man
I was gutted when I first saw Hido's work. Someone had already done everything that I realised I was trying to do with my own photography, and far better than I ever could. I can't relate to your sense of disturbance at these liminal spaces, they feel so homely and welcoming to me.
So much is down to our own personal experiences. I kind of love that about his work. It's like I'm not being lectured to, just invited to feel something.
@@jamiewindsor what do you think about Daido Moriyama? I would love to see a video on his work just like what you did here with Todd. For me, he is one of these photographers that can put tons of emotional content into a single photo (in his case, using very unorthodox techniques).
Took the exact words right out of my mouth. I just got into DSLR's and am even considering film because of him now. But I think we can do it our own way, it can never be the same anyway
I have loved Hido's photography for years and they make me feel cozy and warm too. I guess we can picture ourselves inside and curled up. I live in the North and so during winter these real images are everywhere while I am driving in the country. I also love fog, it makes some feel creepy but it makes me feel like I am in an enchanted world.
Jamie you opened a door to me that I didn't even know was there. Thanks for the insight into this world of Todd Hido, I will now be more aware and cognizant when I see this style of art and understand why I feel the way I feel observing it.
That’s so cool. Those interiors are so creepy, and you can almost smell the old carpets, and stale cigarette smoke. It’s a very strong feeling of discomfort.
Great video! During our first lockdown in Germany, Playgrounds were closed. I took the chance to get my emotion of uncertainty and darkness and created a small series of abandoned playgrounds. These shots you have featured here do trigger my emotions of this time. Thank you.
It taps into that F E E L I I N G. When you walk home from your friends house as a kid. At night and you see a neighborhood house with a blue window where the tv is illuminating the window on the top floor. You wonder what it’s like in there but you are in the cold. It’s like anti cozy but it’s also comforting.
I'm a 48 year old photographer who feels like a 12 year old boy when I watch your videos. You just make me look things a way I haven`t seen yet. BTW, I regret not being able to show off your videos to my friends as I'm argentinian and they don't speak english this level. Cheers!
Everytime I watch one of your videos I feel like a have a new breath of insperation into photography again. Thanks again Jamie its always an enjoyment to watch.
As you increase your skill in photography you come to realize that it is not the photo editor that will make you photo but rather it is the image you see before your eyes. It is the ability to faithfully capture that very scene. It is the light, the tone, the composition, the story.
We're moving house at the moment and yesterday I set foot in the old house. Now nearly empty except for the furniture that belongs to the landlord. We have lived there for 2 years and made it our own although it was a rental. Seeing it stripped down kind of makes it uncanny. The staircase is mostly as it was, so when I walked down my brain tricked me into thinking I was in the full furnished house again. But I wasn't, of course. It was like I was stepping back in time, but it was an alternate, emptied out universe. No girlfriend or cat present. I got the same with those shots. Thanks for this video!
I lately finished my thesis at school, where I phographed the empty streets while Lockdown in Zürich. I felt the exact same feeling that you describe while I searched in the empty streets for pictures!!
I feel slightly weird for not mentioning lockdown: the elephant in the room when it comes to this subject. I suppose it will just be an appropriate topic at the moment.
This homes series reminds me of the feeling I get when I talk to the NPCs in the video game, Bloodborne. All the player can see is the window and facade of an old Victorian era home. You hear the voice of someone so clearly inside paired with an echo of their voice. It creates an image in your head of what the NPC and the inside look like almost perfectly without actually showing it to you.
To me .... this is about waiting in the theater's lobby (at the stairs to the balcony) to meet a date who hasn't yet/never did come. "Stood-up, broken-hearted again." Projecting? Probably so. This is what we are invited to do with such art.
Thank you for this video Mister Windsor Todd Hido is actually one of my favorite photographer. I am glad I know a little bit more about him now. Have a good one Peace
I had a similar experience as a teen- a crumbling factory that seemed haunted yet eloquent, the melancholy of disuse, riffing on memory, loss, failure of lofty ambitions.
I've come back and watched this video a dozen of times, each time with a new discovery. It's definitely changed how I see and feel about Hido's work and now I'm the biggest fan. Thank you for this masterpiece of a content, Jamie!
Nice vdeo. Good description of that feeling. I definitely experienced it during the first lockdown of 2020, had to pick up something from a shop in a usually bustling shopping centre, it was bizarre, no music, no people murmuring and chattering, absolute silence, with the only noise being the squeak of my shoes on the polished tile floor echoing with extraordinary reverberation. Of course there was also the feeling that 'should I have been there picking up some spectacles for someone else who cannot see? Would the police ask me if this was essential?' This was back in april, when the media had convinced many people we were all going to die.
Well ... now i m sure .U are Morgan Freeman of photography man !They way u connect ur narration with the images .. and even more the sounds,or music u use is unique !I really love watching ur work as i know that i will learn something new every time with an unique entertaining and specific way of yours!Great job man ,great job.U are an inspiration to many of us that are just starting.In the end i have to mention of course that i didn't know about Todd Hiddo but i definetely know that i admire him a lot.All these emotions from his work .. this is the reason of a photogfrapher.Creating feelings.Thanks for sharing man
I was lucky enough to study with Todd here in San Francisco when he taught at Berkeley Extension and CCA. Great teacher, wonderful artist, thank you so much for this. Nice take on his vision.
The walking through halls alone definitely is unnerving sometimes. Almost a cold reminder of how much people want to not be alone. Great video. Glad I found your channel.
I love your videos Jamie! UA-cam is awash with videos about gear and tech and settings, so it's really refreshing to find a channel that engages in the art and history of photography and visual culture.
I want to praise not only how good the content is, but how amazing is the production quality of your videos. You are a light of quality in the fog of UA-cam channels. Please, do more videos.
Any image that offers a ? mark in it as Hopper and Hido's images do, will send the viewer onto a journey into the unknown to explore. As viewers we choose our own individual path which might lead to us to a solution. Lovely, love these images and video.
Todd Hido has a new book coming out, so I watched this excellent video for, I think, the third time, I remembered just how good your work is. I hope you are recovering and will be back soon.
This is so fantastic, I was overwhelmed with feelings watching this, my eyes were glued to every shot. Felt like I spent a lifetime being there in those places after a short glance. Just wow
As a species we’re used to people, especially in familiar places. Even the hermit in the cave takes comfort there are people in the outside world. We have an innate fear of being totally alone. Hido’s work brings that fear to our visual senses.
I knew about Houses at night and I always felt calm but uneasy at the same time. But could never describe it. You’ve just put it brilliantly. This is the best kind of videos, Great job and thank you for your insights
fantestic video jamie, one of the best even. buthonestly. I've never felt this in todd hido's work. your music tries to imply this and I can emphasize it. however, I've always found his houses comforting because the light shows that there are still people there and you're not alone in the night. so different can be the perception. I am also constantly in dilapidated houses on the road. I find it nice there. 😅
I'm feeling something els sometimes looking at his pictures : It's like the person behind the window is the last person on earth and I am here watching him, like a stranger, a ghost or maybe some psycho....
Since a few months, I have been following people who creates this kind of atmospheres on Instagram. This shocks me. Didn't know about this misterious world and i think i love it. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for introducing me proper to Hido's work. I had seen his images before, and in the fleeting transiense that is viewing photos online I didn't make note of who the artist was. As soon as I saw the thumbnail for the video I recognised the photo instantly. I went down a bit of a Todd Hido rabbit hole after watching this video and have ended up ordering a copy of House Hunting. So, again, thank you Jamie.
The algorithm failed me as a subscriber to this channel. I’ve been in a liminal space and wondered why? Now, I realize it was because I had not watched one of your videos in a while(Patreon here I come). Glad I came across this. Hido is new to me, but I’m glad you profiled him here. This is the type of photography I love. I call it dark moody realism (simply because I couldn’t find a “proper” name for it). I will definitely check out more of his work. I’m glad you mentioned Stranger Things because I think I love the series because of the photography just as much as I love the plot and characters. The unsettling images keep me riveted to the screen. Thanks, as always, for such an in-depth discussion of photography. You’re the best!
Thank you. Quite a few people seem to have been missing my videos. It might be an idea to click the bell so that UA-cam doesn’t hide my videos away from you. I only release about 1 a month.
I lead tours in an asylum that is being preserved and reused. The main building has been restored to a glorious state. The outlying cottages are something else. I love this sort of stuff because your brain creates it's own narrative for the place you're in. Great video!
I’ve never thought about this before but it’s interesting doing so. I know it’s becoming popular to not be a people person (and I am a people person for the most part), but I find most of these images comforting. It’s all this space in which I could just be myself and not constantly feeling like I’m at odds with society. They look like rooms filled with air I can take a deep breath of and let out a sigh of relief. There’s also something cosy about the ones that don’t have decay in them, and in all of them the possibility for something new. I’d never thought about this stuff this way before, thank you.
Ever since Solar Sands made a video about liminal spaces I've been hooked and I can't get enough of it. For some reason it's very inspirational to me. Most of the liminal photos and paintings aren't even pretty, but still...there's something there.
This was a perfect foil to a book I am reading called 'The Heart of the Photograph' by David duChemin specifically the chapters on mood and mystery. Even otherwise when I am out for my photo walks, I find houses or windows at night very mysterious, even sad and melancholic more than the empty dark roads. What I liked most about this video was your spot-on, thought provoking commentary supporting Hido's art. Let's not forget the whole is as much an art as a part. Thank you, Jamie.
Thank You very much! I have had never before heard of Todd Hido, but i think it's brilliant! It gives a very strong "twilight zone" feeling, and makes You feel slightly uncomfortable.
Jamie, you are undoubtedly my favourite photography content producer here in UA-cam. Great quality, and the most interesting topics Keep up the good work!
Its not hard to look into a Todd Hido photograph and not think of the desolation and abandonment left behind by the lives lived and departed from the spaces seen in the photos. Here I suspect, the simple clarity of loss looms large for most of us, as does our own desires to fill the voids with our imagination, and personal inflections. For me personally, I think his photos open doors into the dark shaded corners of my own memories those of my adolescent mind, long trapped and almost forgotten.
Thank you Jamie, for you are the art teacher that shows me beautiful and interesting work from so diverse artists and explain their work, so that I can appreciate and learn from it.
Such an interesting video. I work in a business where I regularly enter empty buildings. Strangely I find the opposite - I find the emptiness curious and intriguing about ‘what once was’. I love these photos, and Hoppers artwork.
Excellent presentation Jamie of the great Todd Hido series and I liked your take on a similar feeling his work evokes. It's funny we look differently at Americana to our own towns and cities but at night there's so much material to explore and capture.
The amount of time and effort you put into your videos always amazes me man, you're genuinely one of my favourite people on this here platform. Such a creative way to mask and this aspect ratio is perfect for referencing stuff like films and pictures
As always, great content Jamie! Keep up the good work! I totally agree with you on the fact that everybody interprets Todd Hido's work differently and that this is the beauty of it. For example to me, the pictures of the houses at night evoke a feeling of discomfort, but at the same time a sense of security. I think what strikes me the most and what evokes these different feelings is that even in those rather frightening looking surroundings, people find ways to make these places their home. But that's just my interpretation of it... A really interesting quote about this series of Todd Hido himself is that these pictures of the houeses are not about houeses at all, but about people... Such a fascinating artist. Greetings from Germany!
I love how you inspire others to ask questions. You leave people with more questions, but necessary ones. There was a time when I was thinking "I want to be a photographer", it evolved to "How can I be a better photographer", but this led me to a path of equipping myself with more equipment that I had time (I am doing it as a hobby) and ability to facilitate. I couldn't find myself, didn't know what kind of photography I want to do, many pictures I have taken, felt good technically but I am tainted with all that notion to satisfy people over internet and constant question "what people would find attractive?". I forgot in this chase for "better" thinking about viewer, what is actually better for me. Watching you simply reminded me, that there are no universal answers, there are only interpretations and I should focus on how I want to show "my world". Thanks for helping me to look at these from different perspective, where I can at least try to find something for myself, not something others expects me to be as photographer.
Love the lockdown --- two weeks at a time of being alone in my house. Love to play with walking down into my basement at night and imagining a spectre waiting over in the laundry section. Love to witness the discomfort of friends when they complain about my art being empty of people. I get a warm, comforting feeling in the basements and liminal spaces, walking alone in deserted power stations.and machine shops. And what say you? But my thrill of liminal spaces is diminished by the harsh light in many of Todd's photographs, and the '60s carpets and '40s asbestos shingles go past the optimal and produce boredom, not even delicious ennui. Strangely, Hopper's lonely, isolated figures highten the intensity for me.
Incredible video, love photography but haven’t taken many pictures recently wether a lack of opportunity or sheer laziness watching your videos sparks that want to go out and take truly unique pictures again. Keep making videos they really do mean something to me
I just want to say that I appreciate you still making this kind of content, Jamie. Tips videos, photography hacks videos, etc, will perform much better, and they have their place, but I really appreciate that you produce videos about the softer points of the trade. Much love from Canada.
I'd recommend his book "...On Landscapes, Interiors and the Nude." Interesting to read what he thinks about his work. He suggests that he stumbled into his nighttime exteriors because he wasn't done shooting one day but once he found his metier he's incredibly thoughtful about the work. Well worth searching the book out, I think. And I'd recommend the new Arlo Parks video - Caroline. Clearly influenced by his interiors: first with people then without them at the end for added creepiness. Thanks for this - amazing video as ever.
Really interesting and informative, I think the photographs trigger intrigue and tap into the “what’s going on in there” or “who lived here” . I enjoy thought provoking images, I will certainly check his work. Great great video.....loved the style and the narrative.
My graduation thesis was basically 50 pages on the Shining, liminal spaces, and the uncanny valley; so I can feel confidant in saying: great fucking video man
I would love to read it. 🙌
Same here ! That sounds extremely interesting ! :D
Can we see it?
send us a link!! would love to read that
Woah man that's pretty rad. Can we read it?
I was gutted when I first saw Hido's work. Someone had already done everything that I realised I was trying to do with my own photography, and far better than I ever could. I can't relate to your sense of disturbance at these liminal spaces, they feel so homely and welcoming to me.
So much is down to our own personal experiences. I kind of love that about his work. It's like I'm not being lectured to, just invited to feel something.
It's a different feeling for everyone I guess. Large empty urban spaces/buildings definitely creep me out.
@@jamiewindsor what do you think about Daido Moriyama? I would love to see a video on his work just like what you did here with Todd. For me, he is one of these photographers that can put tons of emotional content into a single photo (in his case, using very unorthodox techniques).
Took the exact words right out of my mouth. I just got into DSLR's and am even considering film because of him now. But I think we can do it our own way, it can never be the same anyway
I have loved Hido's photography for years and they make me feel cozy and warm too. I guess we can picture ourselves inside and curled up. I live in the North and so during winter these real images are everywhere while I am driving in the country. I also love fog, it makes some feel creepy but it makes me feel like I am in an enchanted world.
This is the sort of content I have been waiting for. I bloody love these types of videos Jamie. Bloody good stuff ♥️
Agreed. So good
Absolutely!
True ❤️👍
I love it but I don’t know why.
Jamie you opened a door to me that I didn't even know was there. Thanks for the insight into this world of Todd Hido, I will now be more aware and cognizant when I see this style of art and understand why I feel the way I feel observing it.
That’s so cool. Those interiors are so creepy, and you can almost smell the old carpets, and stale cigarette smoke. It’s a very strong feeling of discomfort.
I will not see an empty room in the same way, ever again...
It won't look at you the same way either
The feeling of someone being there when you should be alone is the worst feeling
I find it fascinating that you feel uneasy, even terrified when looking at Hidos photos. But when I look at it, I feel sadness and grief.
Great video! During our first lockdown in Germany, Playgrounds were closed. I took the chance to get my emotion of uncertainty and darkness and created a small series of abandoned playgrounds. These shots you have featured here do trigger my emotions of this time. Thank you.
I practically did the same, I was especially drawn to the red/white tape. Grüße aus Darmstadt
It taps into that F E E L I I N G. When you walk home from your friends house as a kid. At night and you see a neighborhood house with a blue window where the tv is illuminating the window on the top floor. You wonder what it’s like in there but you are in the cold. It’s like anti cozy but it’s also comforting.
yes!
I'm a 48 year old photographer who feels like a 12 year old boy when I watch your videos. You just make me look things a way I haven`t seen yet. BTW, I regret not being able to show off your videos to my friends as I'm argentinian and they don't speak english this level. Cheers!
Use subtitles and Google Translate?
@@FutureChaosTV not always available. Thank you anyway. 😉
LOVE the 4:3 format
Everytime I watch one of your videos I feel like a have a new breath of insperation into photography again. Thanks again Jamie its always an enjoyment to watch.
As you increase your skill in photography you come to realize that it is not the photo editor that will make you photo but rather it is the image you see before your eyes. It is the ability to faithfully capture that very scene. It is the light, the tone, the composition, the story.
We're moving house at the moment and yesterday I set foot in the old house. Now nearly empty except for the furniture that belongs to the landlord. We have lived there for 2 years and made it our own although it was a rental. Seeing it stripped down kind of makes it uncanny. The staircase is mostly as it was, so when I walked down my brain tricked me into thinking I was in the full furnished house again. But I wasn't, of course. It was like I was stepping back in time, but it was an alternate, emptied out universe. No girlfriend or cat present. I got the same with those shots. Thanks for this video!
I lately finished my thesis at school, where I phographed the empty streets while Lockdown in Zürich. I felt the exact same feeling that you describe while I searched in the empty streets for pictures!!
I feel slightly weird for not mentioning lockdown: the elephant in the room when it comes to this subject. I suppose it will just be an appropriate topic at the moment.
Recently read the aperture book written by Hido. Loved it. Great work putting this together.
This homes series reminds me of the feeling I get when I talk to the NPCs in the video game, Bloodborne. All the player can see is the window and facade of an old Victorian era home. You hear the voice of someone so clearly inside paired with an echo of their voice. It creates an image in your head of what the NPC and the inside look like almost perfectly without actually showing it to you.
To me .... this is about waiting in the theater's lobby (at the stairs to the balcony) to meet a date who hasn't yet/never did come. "Stood-up, broken-hearted again." Projecting? Probably so. This is what we are invited to do with such art.
This was such a fantastic presentation! Deserves SO many more views :)
You’re a genius. Articulate, thoughtful, and incredibly humble.
Thank you for this video Mister Windsor
Todd Hido is actually one of my favorite photographer. I am glad I know a little bit more about him
now.
Have a good one
Peace
Jamie, your channel is the very definition of great content. A perfect balance between aesthetics and information.
Jamie Windsor photo essays are simply the best.
I had a similar experience as a teen- a crumbling factory that seemed haunted yet eloquent, the melancholy of disuse, riffing on memory, loss, failure of lofty ambitions.
I've come back and watched this video a dozen of times, each time with a new discovery. It's definitely changed how I see and feel about Hido's work and now I'm the biggest fan. Thank you for this masterpiece of a content, Jamie!
Man said my memories of the time are patchy. Thats the about great childhoods and younger years they are patchy.
Love the video as always.
I hate flattering people, but this time I have to say that your videos are truly masterpieces. I appreciate your work.
This is the type of stuff youtubers need to put out. More of these in depth videos James. Keep it up
Nice vdeo. Good description of that feeling. I definitely experienced it during the first lockdown of 2020, had to pick up something from a shop in a usually bustling shopping centre, it was bizarre, no music, no people murmuring and chattering, absolute silence, with the only noise being the squeak of my shoes on the polished tile floor echoing with extraordinary reverberation. Of course there was also the feeling that 'should I have been there picking up some spectacles for someone else who cannot see? Would the police ask me if this was essential?' This was back in april, when the media had convinced many people we were all going to die.
Well ... now i m sure .U are Morgan Freeman of photography man !They way u connect ur narration with the images .. and even more the sounds,or music u use is unique !I really love watching ur work as i know that i will learn something new every time with an unique entertaining and specific way of yours!Great job man ,great job.U are an inspiration to many of us that are just starting.In the end i have to mention of course that i didn't know about Todd Hiddo but i definetely know that i admire him a lot.All these emotions from his work .. this is the reason of a photogfrapher.Creating feelings.Thanks for sharing man
I was lucky enough to study with Todd here in San Francisco when he taught at Berkeley Extension and CCA. Great teacher, wonderful artist, thank you so much for this. Nice take on his vision.
The walking through halls alone definitely is unnerving sometimes. Almost a cold reminder of how much people want to not be alone. Great video. Glad I found your channel.
Another brilliant, thought provoking film Jamie...you’re a natural educator!
Seeing these photos somehow makes me understand photography a lot more
I love your videos Jamie! UA-cam is awash with videos about gear and tech and settings, so it's really refreshing to find a channel that engages in the art and history of photography and visual culture.
I had never heard of Todd Hido - thanks for bringing him into my life!
You would be such a great lecturer and professor at a University... you argument so creatively and bring up juicy alternative themes in photography
Brilliant content, your videos are always such a joy to watch - very thankful!
I want to praise not only how good the content is, but how amazing is the production quality of your videos. You are a light of quality in the fog of UA-cam channels. Please, do more videos.
Any image that offers a ? mark in it as Hopper and Hido's images do, will send the viewer onto a journey into the unknown to explore. As viewers we choose our own individual path which might lead to us to a solution. Lovely, love these images and video.
Todd Hido has a new book coming out, so I watched this excellent video for, I think, the third time, I remembered just how good your work is. I hope you are recovering and will be back soon.
This is so fantastic, I was overwhelmed with feelings watching this, my eyes were glued to every shot. Felt like I spent a lifetime being there in those places after a short glance. Just wow
As a species we’re used to people, especially in familiar places. Even the hermit in the cave takes comfort there are people in the outside world. We have an innate fear of being totally alone. Hido’s work brings that fear to our visual senses.
I knew about Houses at night and I always felt calm but uneasy at the same time. But could never describe it. You’ve just put it brilliantly.
This is the best kind of videos, Great job and thank you for your insights
fantestic video jamie, one of the best even. buthonestly. I've never felt this in todd hido's work. your music tries to imply this and I can emphasize it. however, I've always found his houses comforting because the light shows that there are still people there and you're not alone in the night.
so different can be the perception. I am also constantly in dilapidated houses on the road. I find it nice there. 😅
There are a lot of people who find his work very comforting. This vast discrepancy in responses is one of the reasons I like it so much.
I'm feeling something els sometimes looking at his pictures : It's like the person behind the window is the last person on earth and I am here watching him, like a stranger, a ghost or maybe some psycho....
A stalker, it's eerie
Since a few months, I have been following people who creates this kind of atmospheres on Instagram. This shocks me. Didn't know about this misterious world and i think i love it. Thanks for sharing.
loved this. his work (and liminal spaces in general) feel so peaceful to me.
Just got Tod's early works and now a video from the best photography yt creator. Feeling blessed
Thank you for introducing me proper to Hido's work. I had seen his images before, and in the fleeting transiense that is viewing photos online I didn't make note of who the artist was. As soon as I saw the thumbnail for the video I recognised the photo instantly. I went down a bit of a Todd Hido rabbit hole after watching this video and have ended up ordering a copy of House Hunting. So, again, thank you Jamie.
The algorithm failed me as a subscriber to this channel. I’ve been in a liminal space and wondered why? Now, I realize it was because I had not watched one of your videos in a while(Patreon here I come). Glad I came across this. Hido is new to me, but I’m glad you profiled him here. This is the type of photography I love. I call it dark moody realism (simply because I couldn’t find a “proper” name for it). I will definitely check out more of his work. I’m glad you mentioned Stranger Things because I think I love the series because of the photography just as much as I love the plot and characters. The unsettling images keep me riveted to the screen. Thanks, as always, for such an in-depth discussion of photography. You’re the best!
Thank you. Quite a few people seem to have been missing my videos. It might be an idea to click the bell so that UA-cam doesn’t hide my videos away from you. I only release about 1 a month.
I lead tours in an asylum that is being preserved and reused. The main building has been restored to a glorious state. The outlying cottages are something else. I love this sort of stuff because your brain creates it's own narrative for the place you're in. Great video!
I’ve never thought about this before but it’s interesting doing so. I know it’s becoming popular to not be a people person (and I am a people person for the most part), but I find most of these images comforting. It’s all this space in which I could just be myself and not constantly feeling like I’m at odds with society. They look like rooms filled with air I can take a deep breath of and let out a sigh of relief. There’s also something cosy about the ones that don’t have decay in them, and in all of them the possibility for something new. I’d never thought about this stuff this way before, thank you.
Ever since Solar Sands made a video about liminal spaces I've been hooked and I can't get enough of it. For some reason it's very inspirational to me. Most of the liminal photos and paintings aren't even pretty, but still...there's something there.
Thank you very much for opening my eyes Jamie! I'm feeling inspiration coming back again.
What an amazing journey you gifted us, Jamie
Paused this so many times throughout to really think about the points being made! Some perfect analogies! Great video as ever!
This was a perfect foil to a book I am reading called 'The Heart of the Photograph' by David duChemin specifically the chapters on mood and mystery.
Even otherwise when I am out for my photo walks, I find houses or windows at night very mysterious, even sad and melancholic more than the empty dark roads.
What I liked most about this video was your spot-on, thought provoking commentary supporting Hido's art. Let's not forget the whole is as much an art as a part. Thank you, Jamie.
thank you for putting into words what so many of us only have a feeling about. Really really helpful.
Thank You very much! I have had never before heard of Todd Hido, but i think it's brilliant! It gives a very strong "twilight zone" feeling, and makes You feel slightly uncomfortable.
Jamie, you are undoubtedly my favourite photography content producer here in UA-cam. Great quality, and the most interesting topics
Keep up the good work!
Jamie thanks a lot, for opening the world of photography through your videos. You're a master.
I thought this video was excellent!! I love Hido and Hopper! Thank you for your amazing analysis.
Loved this essay Jamie!
Its not hard to look into a Todd Hido photograph and not think of the desolation and abandonment left behind by the lives lived and departed from the spaces seen in the photos. Here I suspect, the simple clarity of loss looms large for most of us, as does our own desires to fill the voids with our imagination, and personal inflections. For me personally, I think his photos open doors into the dark shaded corners of my own memories those of my adolescent mind, long trapped and almost forgotten.
I came across your long exposure video and now this one. These are fantastic in the way they are shown. Incredibly inspiring and well described.
This is one of your best videos yet. Absolutely love it.
Thank you Jamie, for you are the art teacher that shows me beautiful and interesting work from so diverse artists and explain their work, so that I can appreciate and learn from it.
Such an interesting video. I work in a business where I regularly enter empty buildings. Strangely I find the opposite - I find the emptiness curious and intriguing about ‘what once was’. I love these photos, and Hoppers artwork.
Wonderful Jamie, love this . I always feel inspired when I watch your films.
Excellent video, Jamie. I don’t think any of these pictures and paintings were intended to be predictive but... here we are.
Excellent presentation Jamie of the great Todd Hido series and I liked your take on a similar feeling his work evokes. It's funny we look differently at Americana to our own towns and cities but at night there's so much material to explore and capture.
Thank you, Jamie. Another extraordinary deep dive behind the pixels.
The amount of time and effort you put into your videos always amazes me man, you're genuinely one of my favourite people on this here platform. Such a creative way to mask and this aspect ratio is perfect for referencing stuff like films and pictures
Thank you.
Yup, you're officially my favourite youtuber
As always, great content Jamie! Keep up the good work!
I totally agree with you on the fact that everybody interprets Todd Hido's work differently and that this is the beauty of it. For example to me, the pictures of the houses at night evoke a feeling of discomfort, but at the same time a sense of security. I think what strikes me the most and what evokes these different feelings is that even in those rather frightening looking surroundings, people find ways to make these places their home. But that's just my interpretation of it...
A really interesting quote about this series of Todd Hido himself is that these pictures of the houeses are not about houeses at all, but about people... Such a fascinating artist.
Greetings from Germany!
I love how you inspire others to ask questions. You leave people with more questions, but necessary ones.
There was a time when I was thinking "I want to be a photographer", it evolved to "How can I be a better photographer", but this led me to a path of equipping myself with more equipment that I had time (I am doing it as a hobby) and ability to facilitate. I couldn't find myself, didn't know what kind of photography I want to do, many pictures I have taken, felt good technically but I am tainted with all that notion to satisfy people over internet and constant question "what people would find attractive?".
I forgot in this chase for "better" thinking about viewer, what is actually better for me. Watching you simply reminded me, that there are no universal answers, there are only interpretations and I should focus on how I want to show "my world".
Thanks for helping me to look at these from different perspective, where I can at least try to find something for myself, not something others expects me to be as photographer.
Love the lockdown --- two weeks at a time of being alone in my house. Love to play with walking down into my basement at night and imagining a spectre waiting over in the laundry section. Love to witness the discomfort of friends when they complain about my art being empty of people. I get a warm, comforting feeling in the basements and liminal spaces, walking alone in deserted power stations.and machine shops.
And what say you?
But my thrill of liminal spaces is diminished by the harsh light in many of Todd's photographs, and the '60s carpets and '40s asbestos shingles go past the optimal and produce boredom, not even delicious ennui.
Strangely, Hopper's lonely, isolated figures highten the intensity for me.
It's interesting how different our reactions can be when work is left open to interpretation like this.
I love that in every video you make me discover a new photographer!!
Incredible video, love photography but haven’t taken many pictures recently wether a lack of opportunity or sheer laziness watching your videos sparks that want to go out and take truly unique pictures again. Keep making videos they really do mean something to me
I'm living through the fear of being truly alone. Time has gone by and I feel invisible lately. Love the topic but it gave me goosebumps.
This is very similar to the work I was doing in the 80s and early 90s, which I called 'Human Absence'. Fascinating, and thanks for sharing, Jamie.
Love those videos you make about the philosophy of photography Jamie. Thank you for the great content.
Hey Jamie, I knew of Todd Hido but never dove deep into his work. This was the gateway for me, and I thank you for crafting this great video.
My friend JUST recommended that I look this guy up, then here you are with a video. Great timing
Truly amazing work! Also, to me they look and feel like the exact opposite of Thomas Kinkade's paintings. Fascinating
Jamie you should be making documentaries for big broadcasters, you're THAT good. Honestly. This was a seriously engaging piece of work.
Quite simply; love your your creative, thought provoking videos. Thank you.
these photos shown gave me the feeling of waking up from a fever dream that somehow also feels like home. Like a back alley of reality.
My favourite photographer. Nice one Jamie!
I just want to say that I appreciate you still making this kind of content, Jamie. Tips videos, photography hacks videos, etc, will perform much better, and they have their place, but I really appreciate that you produce videos about the softer points of the trade. Much love from Canada.
Man how is every single one of your videos a piece of pure art. Well done.
You're my favourite UA-cam-Artist. Thanks for continuing to make these!
One of the best presenting manner on YT. 👏🏻
I think it’s the creepy music you chose that gave me the chills Jamie!
I actually played the music along to mirror my feelings about the images.
@@jamiewindsor, What do you source your music from?
@@alexmetcalfe4668 I play it. I record it in GarageBand.
@@jamiewindsor respect bro.
Thanks for another great video Jamie! Really enjoy being introduced to new photographers and their work.
Thank you for introducing me to Todd's work - it's right up my street. Will definitely look to add some of his work to my photo book collection.
I'd recommend his book "...On Landscapes, Interiors and the Nude." Interesting to read what he thinks about his work. He suggests that he stumbled into his nighttime exteriors because he wasn't done shooting one day but once he found his metier he's incredibly thoughtful about the work. Well worth searching the book out, I think.
And I'd recommend the new Arlo Parks video - Caroline. Clearly influenced by his interiors: first with people then without them at the end for added creepiness.
Thanks for this - amazing video as ever.
Really interesting and informative, I think the photographs trigger intrigue and tap into the “what’s going on in there” or “who lived here” . I enjoy thought provoking images, I will certainly check his work. Great great video.....loved the style and the narrative.