Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with content; be a formalist exploration; and operate on some, metaphor is not the right word but, resonant level.
I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used. - Stephen Shore
I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.
- Stephen Shore
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. - Stephen Shore
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence with… - Stephen Shore
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence with…
If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism. - Stephen Shore
If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.
I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. A… - Stephen Shore
I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. A…
I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph. - Stephen Shore
I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.
I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out… - Stephen Shore
I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out…
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the mes… - Stephen Shore
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the mes…
A photograph has edges the world does not. - Stephen Shore
A photograph has edges the world does not.
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