Stephen Shore Selected Works, 1973-1981 [Hardcover]

Stephen Shore???sUncommon Placesis indisputably a canonic body of work???a touchstone for those interested in photography and the American landscape. Remarkably, despite having been the focus of numerous shows and books, including the eponymous 1982 Aperture classic (expanded and reissued several times), this series of photographs has yet to be explored in its entirety. Over the past five years, Shore has scanned hundreds of negatives shot between 1973 and 1981. In this volume, Aperture has invited an international group of fifteen photographers, curators, authors, and cultural figures to select ten images apiece from this rarely seen cache of images. Each portfolio offers an idiosyncratic and revealing commentary on why this body of work continues to astound; how it has impacted the work of new generations of photography and the medium at large; and proposes new insight on Shore???s unique vision of America as transmuted in this totemic series.
Texts and image selections by Wes Anderson, Quentin Bajac, David Campany, Paul Graham, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, An-My Leê, Michael Lesy, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Francine Prose, Ed Ruscha, Britt Salvesen, Taryn Simon, Thomas Struth, and Lynne TillmanInStephen Shore: Selected Works,1973???1981, an international group of fifteen photographers, curators, authors, and cultural figures each select ten photographs from Shore???sUncommon Placesarchive???none of which appear in his classic Uncommon Places book. Each portfolio offers an idiosyncratic and revealing commentary on why this body of work continues to astound; considers how the series has impacted the work of new generations of photography and the medium at large; and proposes new insight on Shore???s unique vision of America.

• Over one hundred unpublished photographs by this contemporary master
• Major cultural figures choose and write about the photographs, from Wes Anderson to Hans Ulrich Obrist
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