How Stephen Shore's photographs capture small towns
Review: Uncommon Places, Stephen Shore, 2005; Stephen Shore : New American Photography, dir. Ralph Goertz, 2010 is a review describing American Surfaces as a diary of a photographic trip, in which Shore photographed almost every meal, person, waiter or waitress, bed, and toilet, as well as streets and buildings.
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About Stephen Shore's photographs of American small towns and roads, Shore says he was interested in why certain images had immediacy, liveliness, freshness, or spontaneity. He concluded that their key ingredient was the quality of seeing, not photographing. For Stephen Shore's photographs of American small towns and roads, Shore says he didn't shoot the landscape for about two years after moving to Montana. Having spent all his life in NY, he felt technically and intellectually inadequate to shoot what seemed to him an empty landscape.
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Uncommon Places by Stephen Shore surveys landscapes, interiors, and portraits. Shore's cool objectivity and precise systems of gestures in composition and light give a parking lot emptied of people, a hotel bedroom, or a building on a side street both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal importance.
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