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Stephen Shore

(1947) Photographer

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Stephen Shore is a photographer, best known for Stephen Shore.

Quick Facts About Stephen Shore

Born: October 8, 1947
Profession: Photographer
Notable works: Stephen Shore

About Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include Uncommon Places (1982) and American Surfaces (1999), photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in the 1970s.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Stephen Shore · Page 2

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

Advantage

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I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and…

Art

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If I only try to solve the problems I set for myself, then I'm limited by what I can conceive of. I…

Giving

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Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence…

Comparison

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With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a…

Block

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To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something…

Bigs

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I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a…

Knows

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I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of…

Aesthetic

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I think I misunderstood Instagram and just thought it was people photographing their friends, and discovered there were a number of people,…

Art

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