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
With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
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 Image
A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
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 Image
If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
