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This is one of those accidental pairings collectors dream about finding. Todd Hido’s Nympho Daughters has become one of the defining contemporary photobooks of suburban melancholy and cinematic unease, published in a tightly controlled SUPER LABO edition of only 500 copies. But here, alongside the signed photobook, is the probable visual and conceptual source object itself: the cheap yellow vintage sleaze paperback called Nymph Daughters, complete with matching typography and cover design language that Hido clearly absorbed and transformed into something entirely his own. Suddenly the photobook becomes part appropriation piece, part vernacular artifact, part meditation on memory and pulp Americana.
The inclusion of the Casemore/Kirkeby gallery card from Paris Photo Los Angeles adds another nice layer of provenance and period context, tying the work back to the gallery ecosystem surrounding Hido’s rise in the fine art photography world during the 2010s. What makes this set special is not simply the signed SUPER LABO book — already collectible on its own — but the conversation between high-end contemporary photobook culture and the disposable exploitation paperback it appears to reference. You rarely get to hold both ends of that chain in your hands at once.
A genuinely fascinating pairing for collectors of Todd Hido, photobooks, vernacular design, pulp paperbacks, and the strange overlap between exploitation culture and contemporary art photography.
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