Stephen shore

An immersive and staggeringly charming retrospective of the photographer’s work showcases his easeful acceptance of the world.

Shore’s oeuvre is widely appreciated today, yet his star doesn’t shine as brightly as it ought to.

Big Timber, Montana. All Photos © Stephen Shore Stephen Shore fondly recalls his Polaroid SX-70. Shore, known for color images of everyday America, in books like Uncommon Places and American Surfaces, loved the immediacy of the SX-70. “Whatever you observed and chose to picture was right there,” he says of that ingenious little device.

In part one of an extensive three part interview to celebrate the expanded edition of American Surfaces, the legendary photographer reflects on a series of images that changed the way we look at photography

photos by Stephen Shore: everyday_i_show — LiveJournal

Stephen Shore's photographs are attentive to ordinary scenes of daily experience, yet through color--and composition--Shore transforms the mundane into subjects of thoughtful meditation. A restaurant meal on a road trip, a billboard off a highway, and a dusty side street in a Texas town are all seemingly banal images, but upon reflection subtly imply meaning.

Over at World-Architects I did a write-up of Image Building , an exhibition that opened last weekend at the Parrish Art Museum. Some of my ...

In the 70s, everyone hated Shore’s quirky photographs of everyday life because they weren’t in black and white. Now, a new retrospective shows how he became a modern master – and how the masses finally caught up with him