Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore is an american photographers who was born on October 8, 1947 in New York City where at the age of eight he began photographing, at fourteen he sold three prints to Edward Steichen (then director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art where Shore exhibited his work in the institution's first-ever single artist show in 1971), during twelfth grade, he left Manhattan prep school and spent 1965 through 1969 documenting Andy Warhol's studio The Factory.

Shore mainly works on colour photography at the time in the 70s where only serious art photographers saw the world in black and white.

The series American Surfaces shows what Shores has explored during his travel across the states where he keeps a visual diary and photographs whatever he could find like people he meets, food he eats, the houses he comes across, the beds he slept in, store windows, art on walls, etc.

In the series Abu Dhabi it talks about change happening in Abu Dhabi a region that is overshadowed by its loftier neighbour Dubai. The images shows the environment, the people, transportation, etc. where Shore wanted to transform the world into a photograph without moral judgement.

My favourite image from Shore is this photo taken in Ironwood, Michigan in July 9, 1973 from the Uncommon Places series where one half is the sky the other half is the ground where you can see the reflection of the sky on the wet road and puddles and seeing the loneliness of the image where theres nobody in the photo.

Bibliography

http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/shore.shtml

http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/shore_stephen.php

http://www.303gallery.com/artists/stephen_shore/index.php?iid=11166&exhid=3&p=img

http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/events/2011/july/29/stephen-shore-turns-his-lens-to-abu-dhabi/