Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore is an American photographer who was born on October 8, 1947 in New York City. He was interested in photography since his early age. In 1971, at the age of 24, Shore became the second living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was known for his expressionless images and dull scenes and objects. 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. and people started appearing less in his photographs. Stephen Shore was the first person to use high format piece of work and blow them unto high dimensions.




Bibliography

http://www.303gallery.com/artists/stephen_shore/index.php?p=bio

http://photography.about.com/od/famousphotogbiospz/a/Stephen-Shore-Biography.htm