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- Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975
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Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. [ 1 ] His books include Uncommon Places (1982) and American Surfaces (1999), photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in the 1970s.
Nov 14, 2017 · Shore started out in the early 1970s, when he was in his mid-twenties, by using a 35mm camera, and then a 4x5 large-format camera. By the middle of the decade, he recalls, switching to the 8x10 large-format camera pushed him to only take a single exposure of whatever he was shooting.
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- The Legacy of Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore was born in 1947 and grew up on New York City's Upper East Side. Shore's family was Jewish, and he was the only child. The family owned a succesful business and Stephen lived a privileged existence, with annual trips to Europe and regular exposure to art and other forms of culture. He was given a darkroom set by an uncle when he was s...
As a teenager, Stephen Shore was interested in film alongside still photography, and in his final year of high school one of his short films, entitled Elevator, was shown at Jonas Mekas' Film-Makers' Cinematheque. There, Shore was introduced to Andy Warhol and took this as an opportunity to ask if he could take photographs at Warhol's studio, the F...
In 1972, Shore set off on a photographic journey across the United States, driving from New York City through the Carolinas and across Texas and New Mexico before returning through the Midwest. Using a simple Rollei camera, Shore shot almost 100 rolls of film which he subsequently culled into the series American Surfaces. He continued these trips i...
Shore played a central role in establishing color photography as an art form, leading to more widespread questioning of the distinction between the snapshot and the calculated work of artists focused on form and tonal contrast. Shore's use of color opened up the possibility for subsequent artists; Nan Goldin has spoken of his work informing her use...
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- October 8, 1947
- New York City
Feb 17, 2023 · “Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California,” June 22, 1975, from “Uncommon Places.” Photograph © Stephen Shore / Courtesy 303 Gallery / MACK
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Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include Uncommon Places (1982) and American Surfaces (1999), photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in the 1970s.
Jul 17, 2020 · Stephen Shore was in the vanguard of an insurgency in the 1970s that was quickly dubbed ‘the new color photography’. For a handful of young photographers in the United States and Europe with serious artistic ambitions, colour film, considered vulgar by no less a figure than Walker Evans, was the natural choice.
May 10, 2019 · After leaving the Factory, Shore spent a year working with his father, an investor on Wall Street, then returned to photography. In 1971, he was given the first one-man show by a living ...
