Stephen Shore

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Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947 in New York City , USA ) is an American photographer . He became known for his photography of the banal and is one of the most important contemporary photographers. He played a central role in the development of American (color) photography in the 1960s and 1970s and is also considered to be the chronicle of this era.

Life

Shore is the only son of a Jewish family from New York City. Shore already dealt with photography in his childhood. When he was six, an uncle gave him a Kodak Junior darkroom, and when he was nine he got his first 35 mm camera; At the age of 10, he owned a copy of the American Photographers photo book by Walker Evans , whose strictly elegant geometry impressed him. At the age of 14, he presented Edward Steichen, the curator of the New York Museum of Modern Art, with his own photographs. Apparently impressed by the quality of the work, he acquired three works. At 17 Shore met Andy Warhol , moved into the Factory at 18 and documented the following years with Edie Sedgewick and Velvet Underground in black and white photos. Shortly before his 24th birthday, Shore was the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art .

Stephen Shore in the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf during his acceptance speech for the award of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) culture award, September 11, 2010.

An important source of inspiration for Shore was 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 artists and musicians who frequented there, such as B. Lou Reed (" Velvet Underground "). This then resulted in a photo exhibition entitled “The Velvet Years”.

In the 1970s, Shore made many trips across the United States, documenting typically American views of settlements, intersections, industrial parks, and gas stations. Here is world famous recording stand of 21 June 1975 a Chevron shows gas station. With these photos he became one of the American pioneers of color photography, especially alongside William Eggleston and Ernst Haas . At a time when in Europe, including Germany, color photography was still frowned upon in artistic photography.

Shore quickly became known beyond the USA , through his acquaintance with Bernd Becher also in Germany. He took part in documenta 6 in 1977. Shore has been exhibited several times in Germany, including a. 1977 in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , 1994 in the Sprengel Museum Hanover, 1999 in the SK Stiftung Kultur Köln and in 2003 within the exhibition "Cruel and tender" in the Museum Ludwig Cologne.

In 2010 Stephen Shore received the German Society for Photography (DGPh) culture award in Düsseldorf. At the same time, the exhibition "The Red Bulli - Stephen Shore and New Düsseldorf Photography" was opened in the NRW Forum .

Shore, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf on the occasion of the awarding of the culture prize of the DGPh

Exhibitions

Group exhibition

Books

  • Andy Warhol , Stockholm 1968
  • Uncommon Places , USA 1982
  • Photographs 1973–1993 , Munich 1995
  • Stephen Shore / Lynne Tillman: The Velvet Years. Warhols's Factory 1965-67 , Pavilion Books 1995, ISBN 1-85793-323-0
  • Uncommon Places (overview of works), 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
  • Stephen Shore: From Galilee to the Negev , Phaidon Press, London-New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-7148-6706-9
  • Stephen Shore: Factory: Andy Warhol , text by Lynne Tillmann, Phaidon Verlag GmbH, London-New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-7148-7274-2
  • Stephen Shore: Transparencies. Small camera works 1971-79, Mack Books, London 2020, ISBN 978-1912339709 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Shore in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: American surfaces. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Jochen Stöckmann: Photography is always reinvented. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur , February 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ Lenbachhaus - I'm a Believer. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Shore, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH new York