Uncommon Places: The Complete Works

This is a hardcover volume with white cloth boards and a pictorial dust jacket. Stephen Shore followed up his first volume of photographs, American Surfaces, for which he traveled the United States, with an even more expansive and in-depth exploration of the North American way of life in "Uncommon Places." Shore traveled much more extensively during the period of 1973 to 1979, from which these images are culled. The other main difference is that Shore had moved into large-format imagery at this point, hauling around an 8x10 view camera on his journey. This expanded edition from 2004 includes more than 60 previously unpublished images and an interview with Shore by Lynne Tillman.

At the age of 24, Stephen Shore became the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Among his numerous other one-man shows, Shore has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. He has received several awards for his photography including two National Endowment for the Arts Grants and a Guggenheim Foundation Grant. He has been the Chair of the photography department at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. since 1982.