Chemin des Mougins, Cap d'Antibes, France, 2004
c-print, 11" x 14"
2/8
Estimate: $5,600
American photographer Stephen Shore is a pioneer of colour photography. One of the first artists to explore the use of colour photography beyond the domain of the commercial and fashion genres, in 1971 he became the first living photographer to have a one-person exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Shore was introduced to photography as a young child, and by the age of 14, the Museum of Modern Art had acquired his photographs. In his teens he frequented Andy Warhol’s Factory, crediting his observation of Warhol’s processes as a surrogate for a college education. Shore’s first body of colour photographs was taken in the early 1970s with a hand-held 35mm camera during a cross-country road trip. Published in 1982 as American Surfaces, the photographs focused on ordinary, banal objects and streetscapes of everyday American life. This project led to his legendary series of vernacular landscapes, Uncommon Places, shot with a 4x5 camera on road trips across the US from 1973 to 1981. He eventually settled on the unprecedented abilities of an 8x10 camera. His intention was to photograph everything around him, an event that would translate into a rigorous documentation of America at the time.
Shore’s groundbreaking contribution to the field of photography has had a powerful impact, influencing generations of contemporary photographers including Vancouver’s photo-conceptualists. Shore has been Chair of the Photography Department at Bard College, New York since 1982. He has several books published on his photographs, as well as on photographic theory. He has exhibited widely and his work is in major museum collections. The touring exhibition, Stephen Shore: The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968 – 1993 was seen at PHG last year.
Represented by 303 Gallery, New York.
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