Edition 2015
Stephen Shore
Born 1947, New York, United States. Lives and works in New York, United States.
Stephen Shore’s work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty years. His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in New York in the early 1970s sparked new interest in colour photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work. He has exhibited world-wide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA, New York; Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; and Jeu de Paume, Paris. He has published several books, including Uncommon Places, American Surfaces, and Stephen Shore, a book in Phaidon’s Contemporary Artist Series. Since 1982 he has been the director of the photography program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. His work is represented by 303 Gallery, New York, and Sprüth Magers, London and Berlin.