Stephen Shore

(1947- present)

Background Information•At age 6 received a photographic

darkroom kit.

•At age 9 began producing own color photos with a 35mm camera.

•“American Photographs” was a very influential book to him.

•At age 17 he met Andy Warhol and was influenced to take pictures of his studio.

•Later began to photographic landscape on road trips across America.

•Also the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1971.

Church and Second StreetEaston, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1974c- print50 x 60 cm

“When the picture is there, I set out the 8x10 camera,

walk around it, get behind it, put the hood over my

head, perhaps move it over a foot, walk in

front, fiddle with the lens, the aperture, the

shutter speed. I enjoy the camera. Beyond that it is

difficult to explain the process of photographing

except by analogy”.

~ Stephen Shore

Room 125Westbank Motel, Idaho Falls, Idaho, July 18, 1973c- print50 x 60 cm

“A picture happens

when something

inside connects, an experience

that changes as the

photographer does”.

21st. & Spruce St.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1974c- print50 x 60 cm

“Fishing, like photography, is an art that calls forth intelligence,

concentration, and delicacy”.

U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973

“I wanted to understand

photography and the world and myself. To

do that, I produced work. The work that

was shown was like a by-

product, but never the

purpose of my photography”.

N. Main St., Fort Worth, Texas, 6/7/76c-print24 x 20 inches

“To see something

spectacular and recognize it as a photographic

possibility is not making a very big leap.

But to see something ordinary,

something you’d see every

day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that

is what I am interested in”.

East of Dilworth, US 10, MI, July 12, 19731973-2007c-print20 x 24 inches

“The thought process doesn’t even have to be

conceptual or intellectual. It can be visual, or a layer of

thought that’s wordless”.

Presidio, TexasFebruary 21, 1975

Shadows create value. Road, telephone poles, fence and buildings leads the eye. Horizon- Rule of Thirds. Sky looks huge.

References

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