- Medium
- Image rights
- © Stephen Shore, Courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery, New York
Photographer Stephen Shore is interested in ordinary scenes of everyday life. In the early 1970s, he was one of the first fine art photographers to work almost exclusively in color when still narrowly defined "fine art" photography as black-and-white, hand-printed images. In his 1971 series “American Surfaces,” Shore drove across the country obsessively snapping color photos of motel rooms, fast food meals, parking lots, and other seemingly unmemorable objects and experiences. A photo-diary of Shore's American roadtrip, the series evoked the works of Walker Evans and Robert Frank and the rigorous, almost obsessed documentation of the ordinary undertaken by such photographers as Bernd and Hilla Becher and Martin Parr.
- Blue chip
- Represented by internationally recognized galleries.
- Collected by major museums
- Tate, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
- 2019
- Stephen Shore, Sprüth Magers
- 2018
- Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places, Vintage Prints, Edwynn Houk Gallery
- 2017
- Stephen Shore, The Museum of Modern Art
U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973, 1973
- Medium
- Image rights
- © Stephen Shore, Courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery, New York
Photographer Stephen Shore is interested in ordinary scenes of everyday life. In the early 1970s, he was one of the first fine art photographers to work almost exclusively in color when still narrowly defined "fine art" photography as black-and-white, hand-printed images. In his 1971 series “American Surfaces,” Shore drove across the country obsessively snapping color photos of motel rooms, fast food meals, parking lots, and other seemingly unmemorable objects and experiences. A photo-diary of Shore's American roadtrip, the series evoked the works of Walker Evans and Robert Frank and the rigorous, almost obsessed documentation of the ordinary undertaken by such photographers as Bernd and Hilla Becher and Martin Parr.
- Blue chip
- Represented by internationally recognized galleries.
- Collected by major museums
- Tate, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)