Photographs

by Stephen Shore

From the "Stephen Shore, drawing his inspiration from the work of Walker Evans, documents the American middle classes and landscapes in Texas, Mexico, Scotland, and Italy. A retrospective of this work over the last twenty years."

Genres: Photography

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1994

About the author

Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty-five years. He was the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, forty years earlier. He has also had one-man shows at George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago. In 2017, the Museum of Modern Art opened a major retrospective spanning Stephen Shore's entire career. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in New York in the early 1970s sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work.

More than 25 books have been published of Stephen Shore's photographs including Uncommon Places: The Complete Works; American Surfaces; Stephen Shore, a retrospective monograph in Phaidon's Contemporary Artists series; Stephen Shore: Survey and most recently, Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979 and Stephen Shore: Elements. In 2017, the Museum of Modern Art published Stephen Shore in conjunction with their retrospective of his photographic career. Stephen also wrote The Nature of Photographs, published by Phaidon Press, which addresses how a photograph functions visually. His work is represented by 303 Gallery, New York; and Sprüth Magers, London and Berlin. Since 1982 he has been the director of the Photography Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.

Reviews

[David Gallin-Parisi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Photographs as is, photographs taking in inquiry without framing. Catching sight of discovery. Glimpsing what's there, from a fast glance to a studied stare at Shore's work. Setting up an 8 x 10 negative camera on a street, to take a picture with a man's back. Texas landscapes that seem true then, but not anymore. Learning that understanding comes from seeing things as a whole, while zooming into the details, then seeing the whole thing again. Recommended for people interested in American people, places, landscapes, and lighting. I could review this book based soley on the sandy bright quality of light.