Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the whole world and every decision you make imposes an order on it. The question is… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I don't have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it's so detailed that the viewer… — Stephen Shore Copy Share
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's… — Stephen Shore Copy Share
I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every… — Stephen Shore Copy Share
A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of… — Stephen Shore Copy Share
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness… — Stephen Shore Copy Share
I have to be reminded, “’It’s your son’s birthday party. Bring a camera.’ And then, when I’m there, ‘Take a picture,’ because it doesn’t… — Stephen Shore Copy Share
I'm not interested in doing the same kind of picture over and over again. I pose problems for myself. Sometimes they are aesthetic problems… — Stephen Shore Copy Share
I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph. — Stephen Shore Copy Share
I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph. — Stephen Shore Copy Share
A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram. — Stephen Shore Copy Share
The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and see the little bits of everyday… — Stephen Shore Copy Share
I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling. — Stephen Shore Copy Share
There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by… — Stephen Shore Copy Share
I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that… — Stephen Shore Copy Share
