There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by the camera, that you can't use the limitations or the transformation to have an observation that is a very subtle perception of the world.
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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