Stephen Shore Quotes

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• If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.
• The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
• A photograph has edges the world does not.
• Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s twice that.
• To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d…
• A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality…
• I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.
• 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 occur…
• I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece…
• This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the…
• There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can…
• 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…
• I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And…
• I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this…
• Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is…

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