This is a hardcover volume with white cloth boards and a pictorial dust jacket. Stephen Shore followed up his first volume of photographs, American Surfaces, for which he traveled the United States, with an even more expansive and in-depth exploration of the North American way of life in "Uncommon Places." Shore traveled much more extensively during the period of 1973 to 1979, from which these images are culled. The other main difference is that Shore had moved into large-format imagery at this point, hauling around an 8x10 view camera on his journey. This expanded edition from 2004 includes more than 60 previously unpublished images and an interview with Shore by Lynne Tillman.

Uncommon Places: The Complete Works

Shore, Stephen

Thames&Hudson

Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works by Stephen Shore (2014-10-20)

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

The first of Blind Spot's Series books, this exquisitely produced clothbound artist's book with tipped-on cover image collects 34 color photographs of New York's Hudson Valley by the pioneering American art photographer Stephen Shore (born 1947). Shore, one of America's most important living photographers, is celebrated, alongside William Eggleston, for elevating color photography from a medium associated with family snapshots to a genre equivalent to black-and-white photography. First published in 2011, this deluxe volume, printed by Meridian--widely considered America's greatest photobook printer--was named one of Photoeye's Best Books of the Year by critic Gerry Badger, who writes, "Stephen Shore is the master of the 'quiet' photograph, images which paradoxically speak more than most. These images of the Hudson Valley are quietly and utterly satisfying." This highly collectible volume is available in limited quantities.

Stephen Shore: The Hudson Valley: Blind Spot Series 01

Dahlberg, Laurie

Photography & Video

Blind Spot Series

In this book, Stephen Shore explores ways of understanding and looking at all types of photographs - from iconic images to found pictures, negatives to digital files. Based on Shore's many years of teaching photography at Bard College, New York State, this book serves as an indispensable tool for students, teachers and everyone who wants to take better pictures or learn to look at them in a more informed way. As well as a selection of Shore's own work, the book contains images from throughout the history of photography, from works by the fathers of photography to that of artists working with the medium today. It covers a range of genres, as well as images by unknown photographers.

The Nature of Photographs

Phaidon Press

Stephen Shore is one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, best known for his photographs of vernacular America taken in the early 1970s two bodies of work entitled American Surfaces and Uncommon Places. These projects paved the way for future photographers of the 'ordinary' and 'everyday' such as Martin Parr, Thomas Struth, and Nan Goldin. Shore is one of the most important artists working today, and his prints are included in collections of eminent museums and galleries around the world. On July 3, 1973, Stephen Shore set out on the road again. This road trip marked an important point in his career, as he was coming to the tail end of American Surfaces and embarking on a body of work that is known as Uncommon Places. While traveling, in addition to taking photographs, Shore also distributed a set of postcards that he had made and printed himself. While passing through Amarillo, Texas, Shore selected ten of his own photographs of places of note, such as Doug's Barb-B-Que and the Potter County Court House, and designed the back of the cards to look like a typical generic postcard. He sent these images to a well-known postcard printer and ordered 5,600 copies of each card. Then, driving from town to town, Shore surreptitiously inserted his own cards into postcard racks in stores across the country, mixing his own work with 'real' postcards and giving unsuspecting shopkeepers new stock free of charge. In a deadpan, unemotional style, Shore's month-long journal itemizes where he stayed, what he ate, which television programs he watched, what photographs he took, how many miles he drove, and how many postcards he distributed on each day of his trip. The journal also includes postcards of the towns where he stayed as well as some of his own photographs alongside hotel, restaurant, and gas station receipts. As he traveled, recording his experiences in his journal, Shore photographed the towns and cities through which he passed, the people he met, the food he ate, the beds he slept in, and even the toilets he 'encountered', from New York to California and back again. A Road Trip Journal marks the turning point between two major bodies of work in Shore's career and includes some classic portraits from this pioneering color photographer. Each page of the journal is reproduced exactly and bound in a book that matches the format of the original book down to its cover. Following this, every photograph taken over the course of the trip is also featured, whether a perfect composition or a slightly fogged negative of the same scene. A map marks Shore's journey and his own text on the history of the road trip in America is also included. The book also contains reproductions of a number of postcards that Shore made on his trip, allowing the reader the chance to tear them out and use them, or keep them as a piece of 1970s Shore memorabilia. A Road Trip Journal is a highly collectible publication for any photo book collector, photography enthusiast or student, or anyone with an interest in American culture of the 1970s. This limited edition book numbered and signed by the photographer is an exciting addition to Phaidon's ever-growing, highly popular Shore list.

Steven Shore: A Road Trip Journal

Phaidon Press~ Inc

Looks at the physical, depletive, and mental impressions made by photographs.

The Nature of Photographs: A Primer

Italian Nature of Photographs

Una guía básica para observar y comprender las fotografías. Su autor, Stephen Shore es uno de los fotógrafos más influyentes del mundo.
Shore explora formas de comprensión de la fotografía de todas las épocas y condiciones, desde imágenes icónicas hasta fotografías espontáneas, pasando por negativos y archivos digitales.
Basado su larga trayectoria como profesor de fotografía en el Bard College, este libro constituye una herramienta indispensable para estudiantes, docentes y todo aquel que desee tomar mejores fotografías o aprender a observar de forma más consciente.
Incluye comentarios de obras de los padres de la fotografía, como Alfred Stieglitz y Walker Evans y de artistas actuales como Collier Schorr.

Stephen Shore: Leccion de Fotografia (The Nature of Photographs) (Spanish Edition)

Photographer Stephen Shore creates a living portrait of Israel and the West Bank.
From Galilee to the Negev offers an intimate look at this multi&amp;hyphen;faceted place, exploring its complexities and its contradictions. Shore travelled the length and breadth of the region, questioning and revealing through his camera lens. His visual inquiry explores the landscape itself and the people who live in it – the daily lives and the narratives that combine to create this fascinating place, at once beautiful and ugly, safe and hostile.
Shore’s images are accompanied by texts from a diverse range of writers, including Jane Kramer, Yotam Ottolenghi, and Yossi Klein Halevi, each of whom selected a single photograph as a springboard for his or her response.

Stephen Shore: From Galilee to the Negev

Klein Halevi, Yossi

KRAMER, Jane

A powerful and haunting visual record, Stephen Shore's portraits highlight the resilience and hope of Ukraine's Holocaust survivors.
Stephen Shore, one of the most influential photographers living today, traveled to the Ukraine in 2012 and again in 2013, just prior to the current political upheaval, to visit 35 survivors, most of whom are women. In the photographs of the survivors and their homes, Shore visually explores their collective experience as seen through quotidian details, and leaves open the question as to how the history of the Holocaust informs the viewer's reception of the portraits.
The book's 200 digital color photographs are organized to create intimate portraits of their individual and collective experiences whilst maintaining the unsentimental formal order of his photography.
An essay by Jane Kramer, who has written The New Yorker's Letter from Europe since 1981, will situate the survivors and their stories in the historical context of Ukraine's modern history with a particular emphasis in the place of Jews within that history.
An important cultural document, Survivors in Ukraine sits between the traditions of the diaristic colour photobook that Shore himself pioneered with Uncommon Places (1982) and American Surfaces (2005), and that of the 'concerned' photographer using the camera as witness to conflict and other historic events.

Stephen Shore: Survivors in Ukraine

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