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Witness #7

Posted on Monday, February 22, 2010, by Lindsey Westbrook

Witness #7
Nazraeli Press, 2009
Hardcover, 96 pages, $40

As guest editor of Witness #7, Todd Hido (Photography faculty) juxtaposes his own photographs of the vacant interiors of foreclosed homes—the first time this series has been published as a group—with portraits made by the Polish photographer Leon Borensztein in the 1980s. Hido's potent and surreal pictures of empty spaces include traces of lives previously lived, and Borensztein's portraits (set against generic backdrops in homes and businesses in Stockton, Fresno, and Bakersfield) metaphorically give form to the evicted families.