Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
by Stephen Shore
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"Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore's legendary Uncommon Places has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, and his large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic tradition over the past forty years. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, published by Aperture in 2004, presents a definitive show more collection of the landmark series, and in the span of a decade, has become a contemporary classic. Now, for this lushly produced reissue, the artist has added twenty rediscovered images and a statement explaining what it means to expand a series now many decades old. Like Robert Frank and Walker Evans before him, Shore discovered a hitherto unarticulated vision of America via highway and camera. Approaching his subjects with cool objectivity, Shore in these images retains precise internal systems of gestures in composition and light, through which a parking lot emptied of people, a hotel bedroom, or a building on a side street assumes both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal importance. In contrast to his signature landscapes with which Uncommon Places is often associated, this expanded survey reveals equally remarkable collections of interiors and portraits." -- Publisher's description. show lessTags
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This is the complete "Uncommon Places" collection. The reproduction are big and high quality, the work is just marvelous. The final interview is very interesting, the opening essay could have been longer and more accurate. Such a beautiful book maybe deserved a richer introduction. But you can't get tired of watching these beautiful reproduction of Shore's work through America with an 8x10 camera.
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Stephen Shore is currently the Susan Weber Soros Professor in the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
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