Stephen Shore: Contemporary Artists Series



1/2011
SHORE, STEPHEN.

Contemporary Artists Series. Contrib. by Christy Lange & Joel Sternfeld, Interview by Michael Fried. London 2008. 25 x 29 cm. 160 S. mit 120 (80 farb.) Abb., Ausst'verz., Bibliographie. Broschur. In engl. Sprache.

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A major figure in the photography world, Joel Sternfeld was born in New York City in 1944. He has received numerous awards including two Guggenheim fellowships, a Prix de Rome and the Citibank Photography Award.

Stephen Shore's photographs of 'ordinary' America have had an extraordinary impact. He spent the 1970s crisscrossing the continent to assemble his two best known bodies of work, "American Surfaces" and "Uncommon Places". These photographs focused on the minutiae of modern American life, unveiling the exceptional beauty to be found in banality and pioneering the two most important photographic idioms of the past thirty years: the diaristic snapshot (later taken up by such artists as Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans) and the monumentalized landscape (as practiced by Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky). Shore was also one of the first art photogaphers to work in colour, capturing the sky blues, mustard yellows and avocado greens of a nation whose chromatic enthusiasm occasionally outstripped its taste. Since the 1970s Shore has continued to expand his repertoire, moving effortlessly between black and white and colour, landcape and portraiture, large format and 35 mm. In so doing, he has proven himself one of contemporary art's most vital photographers. As fellow photographer Joel Sternfeld writes in the Focus section, 'what may ultimately be at stake in his pictures is the pure condition of sight itself.'

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