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Stephen Shore
Following his prodigal success in New York City with a one-person exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1971 and time spent as a resident observer of Andy Warhol's Factory, Stephen Shore began making cross-country trips, photographing in chromogenic color with medium and large-format cameras. Shown in New Topographics were the results of Shore's examination of sites across the U.S. and Canada: typical main streets, dusty intersections, car-lined roads. Later entitling his series Uncommon Places, Shore hints at the suggestion that light and attention, photography's basic elements, could transform even the most unprepossessing subjects. Although the only color prints in New Topographics, Shore's work is compatible with that of the other exhibited photographers in terms of subject, scale, and affect. As critic Max Kozloff observed, color could be just as cool as black and white.
1. 2ND STREET EAST AND SOUTH MAIN STREET, KALISPELL, MONTANA, AUGUST 22, 1974 20 x 24 in. Lent by the artist, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York © Stephen Shore.
2. PROTON AVENUE, GULL LAKE, SASKATCHEWAN, AUGUST 18, 1974 20 x 24 in. Lent by the artist, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York © Stephen Shore.
3. MAIN STREET, GULL LAKE, SASKATCHEWAN, AUGUST 18, 1974 20 x 24 in. Lent by the artist, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York © Stephen Shore.
Audio excerpt generously provided by AIR (Art International Radio), from an interview with Stephen Shore first broadcast on September 26, 2005, and available at www.artonair.org.
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Stephen Shore discusses his road trips of the 1970s as a form of visual diary.
ROBERT ADAMS
LEWIS BALTZ
BERND AND HILLA BECHER
JOE DEAL
FRANK GOHLKE
NICHOLAS NIXON
JOHN SCHOTT
STEPHEN SHORE
HENRY WESSEL, JR.
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