One of photography’s principal figures is American photographer Stephen Shore. A pioneer in the art of colour photography his work he opened a new direction in the 1970s.
Influenced at an early age by Walker Evans, he selled his first picture to the director of the MOMA (Edward Steichen) at the age of 14. When he was 17 he began to frequent Andy Warhol’s studio ‘the Factory’ documenting this creative scene.
His first solo exibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was at the age of 24.
His first book ‘Uncommon Places’ is a selection of photographs of American and Canadian landscapes made during a series of cross-country trips. The common places are shown as ordinary scenes of everyday life in which he finds a richness of meanings.
His well known deadpan and banal images of objects and situations in the U.S show scenes of american life that reveal the archetypal in the everyday.
His style was probably infuenced by Warhol’s general deadpan aesthetic with its embrace of serialism and its fixation on banal, everyday things. He captured the images with a 8x10 camera with rigorous concerns and technical considerations of balance, point of view and exploring the perceptions of space and time. His work has inspired many photographers and artists such as William Egglston, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Andreas Gursky and many more;he had a profound impact on contemporary fine art photography. I belive Shore is one of the masters of contemporary art photography and I find his work a resource of visual and technical informations for everyone interested in visual arts.
Bibliography:
·Uncommon Places: the complete works, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen (Author), 2004
·3 minute wondet Deutsche Borse photography prize Part 3 Stephen Shore 2005
·jaymovies.com/2006/05/stephen_shore.html
·nytimes.com/2007/05/18/arts/design/18shor.html
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