Stephen Shore was born in 1947 in New York city .He was influenced by Walker Evan’s book, American Photographs,when he received a copy he at ten years old. At the age of fourteen his career began through showing his photographs to Edward Schreichen,who also bought three of his works. At the age of 24 he was one of the fisrt to have a solo exhibition. Stephen Shore then started a series cross-country trips.The photographs are from American and Canadian landscapes. Then in 1972 shore went on a journey from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas. In stephen Shore's Artist statement he writes "Color film is wonderful because it shows not only the intensity but the color of light. There is so much variation in light between noon one day and the next, between ten in the morning and two in the afternoon. A picture happens when something inside connects".Stephen Shore started color photography in 1973. His work is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; and Yale University. In 1991 Shore started photographing in black-and-white again.he now has began to photograph with a digital camera and printing small books.
http://www.afterimagegallery.com/shore.htm
http://www.phaidon.co.uk/agenda/photography/picture-galleries/2011/february/04/shifting-focus-the-decade-interview-stephen-shore/
http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/shore_stephen.php
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