Stephen Shore
(Stephen Shore: Bay Theatre, 2nd Street, Ashland, Wisconsin, July 9, 1973)
Stephen Shore (U.S., b. 1947)
Bay Theatre, 2nd Street, Ashland, Wisconsin, July 9, 1973. 1973
Chromogenic color print
6 3/16 x 8 1/4 in. image size
Henry Art Gallery, Monsen Study Collection of Photography, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen, 83.17
On the morning of July 3, 1973, Stephen Shore got into his car and began an eleven-year sequence of photographs called Uncommon Places. This body of work traces, almost biographically, the journey of the artist through American cities, as he constructs identities for them and defines specific places according to his personal experiences. Shore’s Chromogenic color prints, like pop art and pop culture, take the façade of people and places as their theme: “I was thinking that photography deals primarily with the surface of things,” Shore remarked.