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"Nymph Daughters" is a photobook by American photographer Todd Hyde. This experimental book combines photographs from different eras and backgrounds to create a story that never actually existed. The origin of this method lies in Hyde's graduate school work under the guidance of photographer Larry Sultan, where he attempted to construct new narratives by combining existing photographs with his own, and in this book, he expands on that idea into the form of a photobook. The book opens with an old studio portrait of a woman who appears to be a mother, taken in the 1950s, and ends with a newspaper photograph capturing the scene of a car accident. Between these are images of women, houses, and suburban landscapes taken by Hyde himself, and from these originally unrelated photographs, the life, family, and memories surrounding a woman and the events of the past emerge as if they were a real past. The title and cover are also part of this structure, and are a scan and reconstruction of the cover of an old pulp fiction book, "Nymph Daughters," that Hyde owned. The "$3.00" price tag, stains, and even traces resembling writing are all part of the design, giving it the appearance of a rare, discovered book. Hyde himself has said that small-batch independent publishing allows him to freely experiment with things that are difficult to do with regular monographs, and this book is a perfect example of that. This early masterpiece from SUPER LABO, limited to 500 copies, condenses the fascinating aspects of the photobook medium, which can even create memories that never existed through the arrangement and context of photographs. Despite its simple, zine-like format, it is a very meaningful book. (Slightly damaged)