Stephen Shore

A Presentation by Sara Prusik

“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

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.

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.

Often the photographs he took were of ordinary people, places and events which he caught in a unique manner with his photographic eye.

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.

In 1972, he made the journey from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas, that provoked his interest in

color photography.

Viewing the streets and towns Shore passed through, he conceived the idea to photograph them in color, first using 35 mm hand-held camera,

then a 4x5 view camera

Michael and Sandy Marsh, Amarillo, Texas, September 27, 1974

…before finally settling on the 8x10 format

Stephen Shore i s known for h is ta lent and innovat ion in photography wor ld . He is a lso known as an author of the1982 book, Uncommon Places; cons idered a b ib le for the new color photographers.

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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