1. Stephen Shore (1947- present)

2. Background Information At age 6 received a photographic darkroom kit. At age 9 began producing own color photos with a 35mm camera. “American Photographs” was a very influential book to him. At age 17 he met Andy Warhol and was influenced to take pictures of his studio. Later began to photographic landscape on road trips across America. Also the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1971.

3. Church and Second Street Easton, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1974 c- print 50 x 60 cm “When the picture is there, I set out the 8x10 camera, walk around it, get behind it, put the hood over my head, perhaps move it over a foot, walk in front, fiddle with the lens, the aperture, the shutter speed. I enjoy the camera. Beyond that it is difficult to explain the process of photographing except by analogy”. ~ Stephen Shore

4. Room 125 Westbank Motel, Idaho Falls, Idaho, July 18, 1973 c- print 50 x 60 cm “A picture happens when something inside connects, an experience that changes as the photographer does”.

5. 21st. & Spruce St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1974 c- print 50 x 60 cm “Fishing, like photography, is an art that calls forth intelligence, concentration, and delicacy”.

6. U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973 “I wanted to understand photography and the world and myself. To do that, I produced work. The work that was shown was like a by-product, but never the purpose of my photography”.

7. N. Main St., Fort Worth, Texas, 6/7/76 c-print 24 x 20 inches “ To see something spectacular and recognize it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in”.

8. East of Dilworth, US 10, MI, July 12, 1973 1973-2007 c-print 20 x 24 inches “The thought process doesn’t even have to be conceptual or intellectual. It can be visual, or a layer of thought that’s wordless”.

9. Presidio, Texas February 21, 1975  Shadows create value.  Road, telephone poles, fence and buildings leads the eye.  Horizon- Rule of Thirds.  Sky looks huge.

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