Stephen shore

The Stephen Shore exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art casts a wide net, including the anomalous periods when Shore worked abroad, but its main focus is his many photographs of hyper-quotidian America, our stalest shades of red, white, and blue. These quiet and straightforward pictures—of food, buildings, cars, and toilets—show that Shore is best understood as a photographer uninterested in photographing what is agreed to be worthy of capture.

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. Color photography attracted Shore for its ability to record the range and intensity of hues seen in life. In 1971, at age…

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Photographs from then that look like now, excerpted from Katherine A. Bussard and Lisa Hostetler’s Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Sherman. View the Slideshow.

Authentic American Diner food photography by an all-time great, Stephan Shore. Learn and get inspiration for your own food photography!

Stephen Shore, Ginger Shore, West Palm Beach, Florida, November 14, 1977; from Stephen Shore: Selected Works, 1973–1981 (Aperture, 2017)

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From The Museum of Modern Art, Stephen Shore, Amarillo, Texas, July 1972 (1972), Chromogenic color print, 3 1/16 × 4 5/8 in