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Stephen shore
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2. “It’s the bane of my existence that I see photography not as a
way of recording personal experience particularly, but as this
process of exploring the world and the medium”
-- Shore
3. Early Life
• Stephen Shore born in October of 1947 in New York, NY (now age 68).
• Stephen Shore was interested in photography from an early age. Self-
taught, he received a photographic darkroom kit at age six by his uncle.
• He soon began using a 35millimeter camera and produced his first color
photographs.
• Stephen started to get recognition from well recognized photographers of
the time at the age of 10.
• In 1971, when Shore was 24, he became the second to display an solo
exhibition of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the largest Art
Museum in the United States located in New York City.
4. Having accomplished such milestones at such a young age Shore
decided to explore and did so by making cross country trips and
documenting his journey, making “On the Road" photographs of
American and Canadian landscapes.
5. Often the photographs he took were of
ordinary people, places and events which
he caught in a unique manner with his
photographic eye.
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7. Shore was one of the first to use powerlines as an influence
lines in his photography.
While most photographers of his time tried at all costs to avoid these “hideous” sites,
Shore had the ability to see there beauty and embrace there architectural form.
8. In 1972, he made the journey from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas,
that provoked his interest in color photography.
9. Viewing the streets and towns Shore passed through, he conceived
the idea to photograph them in color, first using 35 mm hand-held
camera,
10. then a 4x5 view camera
Michael and Sandy Marsh, Amarillo, Texas, September 27, 1974
12. Stephen Shore is known for his talent and
innovation in photography world. He is also known
as an author of the1982 book, Uncommon Places;
considered a bible for the new color photographers.
13. Other Books of his photographs include Uncommon Places: The Complete Works;
Essex County; The Velvet Years, Andy Warhol's Factory, 1965 - 1967; American
Surfaces, A Road Trip Journal, and Stephen Shore, a retrospective monograph in
Phaidon's Contemporary Artists series.
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.
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