Stephen Shore was born on October 8, 1947 in New York City, who is an American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects in the United States and for his pioneering use of colour in art photography.
He was interested in photography from an early age, self-taught. At age six his uncle gave him a photographic kit, thereafter in 1973 he began use a 35mm camera and started his colour photographs; at fourteen sold three prints to Edward Eteichen the director of the Museum of Modern Art; left a Manhattan prep School during twelfth grade and spent 1965 through 1969 documentary Andy Warhol’s factory; and in 1971 he became the second living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The book titled ‘Uncommon Places’ is very useful with a astonish images. Shore used a 8x10 film large format a way that gives the ability for viewers to see how much details as the camera can record which is superb, and the purpose he used it is that he discovered that was a technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in the state of awareness, in that awareness of really looking at of the everyday world; and he goes as far in the space as he can paying attention and choosing advantage point that it stands and articulates the space.
Shore is fascinated of how people live, the architecture and interested in how those different houses look like. The images are very clear and have very long tonal range also great image dynamic but he never crops it because he challenges himself playing game in certain rules and in certain boundaries that for him makes more interesting to know that the decision that he makes when he takes a picture are the decisions that he has to live with.
REFERENCE
- Book: Uncommon Places
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m5flmLiEDA
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAQkrUB1sLM&feature=related
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8kuBc27VO8&feature=related
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