I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could.… — 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… — 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… — 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
There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes… — 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… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I've been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly,… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence… — 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… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something… — 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
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