Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore ( born October 8, 1947 in New York City, USA ) is an American photographer. He is one of the most important photographers of our time. He played a central role in the development of American (color) Photography of the 1960s and 1970s, and is, moreover, as time chronicler of that era.

Life

Shore sat down already in his childhood on photography. As a 14 -year-old, he presented the then curator of the Museum of Modern Art, New York Edward Steichen 's photographs. He acquired, apparently impressed by the quality of the work, three works. With 17 Shore Andy Warhol met and moved into the Factory. Shortly before his 24th birthday Shore then had the first living photographer a solo exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

An important site of excitation was for Shore Andy Warhol's "Factory", a meeting place for many avant-garde artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Shore documented life in the "Factory" and many of the traffic there artists and musicians, such as Lou Reed ( "Velvet Underground" ). From this then created a photo exhibition entitled " The Velvet Years".

In the 1970s, Shore took many trips across the United States and documented typical American views of settlements, road crossings, commercial areas and gas stations. Here is world famous recording as of June 21, 1975, showing a Chevron station. With these recordings, he was especially with William Eggleston and Ernst Haas as one of the American pioneers of color photography. This was frowned upon at a time, as in Europe, including Germany, color photograph in artistic photography.

Shore quickly became known beyond the United States, through his acquaintance with Bernd Becher in Germany. He participated in the documenta 6 in part in 1977. Shore has been exhibited in Germany, including 1977 in the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, 1994 at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, 1999 in SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne, and in 2003 in the exhibition "Cruel and tender " at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.

In 2010, Stephen Shore was awarded the Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography ( DGPh ) in Dusseldorf. There was the same time as the exhibition " Der Rote Bulli - Stephen Shore and the New Düsseldorf Photography " opens at the NRW - Forum.

Exhibitions

  • Andy Warhol, Stockholm 1968
  • Uncommon Places, USA 1982
  • Photographs 1973-1993, Munich 1995
  • Stephen Shore / Lynne Tillman: The Velvet Years. Warhol 's Factory 1965-67, Pavilion Books 1995, ISBN 1857933230
  • Uncommon Places ( work overview ), Munich 2003
  • Stephen Shore: American Surfaces, Phaidon Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 0-7148-4507-8
  • Stephen Shore: The Nature of Photographs, Phaidon Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-0-7148-4585-2
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