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

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

If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

- 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…

- 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.

- 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…

- Stephen Shore

A photograph has edges the world does not.

- 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…

- Stephen Shore