Monday, 16 May 2011

Stephen Shore








Stephen Shore, an American photographer, born October 8 1947 best known for his dead pan images of American ‘on the road’ landscapes. He started off using black and white photography and ended up a pioneer for colour photography.

He developed an interest in photography when he was as young as eight. He began using a 35 mm camera shortly after receiving a darkroom kit. His great influence came from a Walker Evans book called American photographs. By the age of fourteen he had already sold three of his prints to Edward Steichen, Curator of photography at the Museum of modern art.  At the age of seventeen he was photographing Andy Warhol and other artists. And by the age of twenty four he became the second living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of art. His work has influenced many photographers such as Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Martin Parr, Joel Sternfeld and Thomas Struth. His work, like a painting is considered to be a work of art.

When you look at his images you’ll see that they are visually perfect. The color is perfect. Framing is perfect and you can see that a lot of consideration has been taken to make sure that everything that is in the shot is there for a reason.












http://www.phaidon.co.uk/agenda/photography/video/2010/september/01/being-stephen-shore/

http://seesawmagazine.com/shore_pages/shore_interview.html

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