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Stephen Shore

born 1947

Columbia, South Carolina, June 1972 1972, printed 2005
© Stephen Shore, courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York
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Biography

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.

In 1975 Shore received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1971, he was the first living photographer to be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where he had a solo show of black and white photographs. He was selected to participate in the influential group exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House (Rochester, New York), in 1975–1976.

In 1976 he had a solo exhibition of color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art. In 2010 he received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society.

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Artworks

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  • Ukraine

    Stephen Shore
    2012–13, printed 2014
  • 4-Part Variation

    Stephen Shore
    1969
  • New York, New York, March 1972

    Stephen Shore
    1972, printed 2005
  • Holbrook, Arizona, June 1972

    Stephen Shore
    1972, printed 2005
  • Granite, Oklahoma, July 1972

    Stephen Shore
    1972, printed 2014
  • New York, New York, September-October 1972

    Stephen Shore
    1972, printed 2005
  • New York, New York, September-October 1972

    Stephen Shore
    1972, printed 2014
  • New York, New York, September-October 1972

    Stephen Shore
    1972, printed c.2005
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