Stephen Shore

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Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore
Born	(1947-10-08) October 8, 1947 New York City
Nationality	American
Field	Photography

Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. In 2010, Shore received an Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Photographic Society.

Life and work

Stephen Shore was interested in photography from an early age. Self-taught, he received a photographic darkroom kit at age six from a forward-thinking uncle.^[1] He began to use a 35mm camera three years later and made his first color photographs. At ten he received a copy of Walker Evans's book, American Photographs, which influenced him greatly. His career began at fourteen, when he presented his photographs to Edward Steichen, then curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Recognizing Shore's talent, Steichen bought three. At seventeen, Shore met Andy Warhol and began to frequent Warhol's studio, the Factory, photographing Warhol and the creative people that surrounded him. In 1971, at the age of 24, Shore became the second living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^{[n 1]}

Shore then embarked on a series of cross-country trips, making "on the road" photographs of American and Canadian landscapes. In 1972, he made the journey from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas, that provoked his interest in color photography. Viewing the streets and towns he passed through, he conceived the idea to photograph them in color, first using 35mm and then a 4x5" view camera before finally settling on the 8x10 format. In 1974 a NEA endowment funded further work, followed in 1975 by a Guggenheim grant and in 1976 a color show at MoMA, NY. His 1982 book, Uncommon Places, was a bible for the new color photographers^{[citation needed]} because, alongside William Eggleston, his work proved that a color photograph, like a painting or even a black and white photograph, could be considered a work of art. Many photographers, including Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Martin Parr, Joel Sternfeld, and Thomas Struth, have acknowledged his influence on their work.^{[citation needed]}

Shore has produced many photobooks (listed below).

Currently Shore is the director of the photography department at Bard College, a position he has held since 1982.

Other projects

Shore photographed fashion stories for Another Magazine, Elle, Daily Telegraph and many others.^[2] Commissioned by Italian brand Bottega Veneta, he photographed socialite Lydia Hearst-Shaw, filmmaker Liz Goldwyn and model Will Chalker for the brand's spring/summer 2006 advertisements.^{[citation needed]}

Art market

Shore is represented by 303 Gallery in New York; Sprüth Magers Berlin London; and Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels. In 2012, Shore left his long-time commercial agency, Bill Charles Represents.

Catalogues and monographs

Uncommon Places. New York: Aperture, 1982. ISBN 0-89381-101-7
The Gardens at Giverny, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985
The Velvet Years, Andy Warhol's Factory, 1965–1967, Thunder's Mouth, 1995
Stephen Shore: Photographs 1973–1993, Schirmer Art Books, 1998
Uncommon Places: 50 Unpublished Photographs, Verlag der Galerie Conrads, 2002
Uncommon Places, the Complete Works, Thames & Hudson, 2004
Uncommon Places, Aperture, 2005
American Surfaces, Phaidon, 2005
Essex County, Nazraeli Press, 2006
Witness No.1, Nazraeli Press, 2007
Stephen Shore, Phaidon, 2007
A Road Trip Journal, Phaidon, 2008
One Picture Book #43 Merced River, Nazraeli Press, 2009
Stephen Shore, Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2010
Stephen Shore: Mose: A Preliminary Report, Walther König, 2011
Stephen Shore: The Hudson Valley, Blind Spot Series, 2012

Other books

The Nature of Photographs, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-801857-20-1 (Subsequent editions London: Phaidon, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7148-5904-0)

Exhibitions

2010, Les Rencontres d'Arles festival, France.
2012, Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places,^[3] Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

Notes

↑ Alfred Stieglitz had been the first. Michael Kimmelman, "Passing Mile Markers, Snapping Pictures", New York Times, May 18, 2007.

References

↑ Interview with Stephen Shore. Wallpaper*, July 26, 2007.
↑ Reuel Golden (December 1, 2010), A Shore thing W.
↑ "Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places". Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 114679061 LCCN: n82003904 ISNI: 0000 0001 2148 3767 GND: 119197766 BNF: cb137735141

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Name	Shore, Stephen
Alternative names
Short description	American photographer
Date of birth	October 8, 1947
Place of birth	New York City
Date of death
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