A conversation with photographer Stephen Shore and acclaimed critic Peter Schjeldahl in conjunction with Shore’s forthcoming releases, Stephen Shore: Survey and the expanded edition of Uncommon Places.
The two will discuss the work that spans Shore’s impressive and productive career, in light of his first-ever retrospective exhibition at Fundación MAPFRE this fall, including his series Early Works, Amarillo, New York City, American Surfaces, and Uncommon Places, as well as Shore’s significant contributions and influence on photography over the past four decades.
Stephen Shore (born in New York, 1947) had his work purchased by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, at age fourteen. At seventeen, Shore was a regular at Andy Warhol’s Factory, producing an important photographic document of the scene, and in 1971, at the age of twenty-four, he became the first living photographer since Alfred Stieglitz forty years earlier to have a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has had numerous one-man shows, including those at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1982, he has been director of the photography program at Bard College.
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