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Stephen Shore has achieved widespread recognition for the way in which his work has moved documentary and landscape photography beyond the monumental and newsworthy and toward explorations of everyday life and the emotions with which people see.
- American
- October 8, 1947
- New York City
Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) 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. [1] His books include Uncommon Places (1982) and American Surfaces (1999), photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in the 1970s.
Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty-five years. He was the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, forty years earlier.
Biography. Stephen Shore was something of a prodigy as a photographer. Born in New York City in 1947, he learned about and practiced photography from the age of six. In 1958, Shore was given a copy of Walker Evans' book American Photographs.
- Shore was determined from the start – in 1961, the director of MoMA’s Department of Photography Edward Steichen got a phone call from a 14-year-old Shore.
- Shore was already an emerging member of New York’s art scene when he met Andy Warhol in 1965. Warhol was so impressed by Shore’s enthusiasm and work ethic that he issued an open invitation to the Factory.
- Over the course of 1965 to 1967, Shore was at the Factory nearly every day, compiling an extraordinary intimate record of the workings of the Warhol’s studio and the people who came, went and socialised within.
- The overflow from Factory parties sometimes came back to Shore’s parents’ apartment for after-parties – a famous picture of his from the time shows Nico sat at his breakfast table.
Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) 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.
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Stephen Shore (American, b.1947) is an American photographer well-known for producing deadpan images of banal scenes. He is a pioneer of colored art photography. Shore was born in New York, NY, and is largely a self-taught artist.
