Stephen Shore: Selected Works 1973-1981 (Signed First Edition)

SHORE, Stephen, Wes Anderson, Quentin Bajac, David Campany, Paul Graham, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, An-My Lê, Michael Lesy, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Francine Prose, Ed Ruscha, Britt Salvesen, Taryn Simon, Thomas Struth, and Lynne Tillman

ISBN 10: 1597113883 / ISBN 13: 9781597113885

Published by Aperture, New York, 2017

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 280 pages. Wes Anderson, Quentin Bajac, David Campany, Paul Graham, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, An-My Lê, Michael Lesy, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Francine Prose, Ed Ruscha, Britt Salvesen, Taryn Simon, Thomas Struth, and Lynne Tillman were each tasked with selecting and writing about 10 images from Shore's seminal "Uncommon Places" archive. A fine copy with some light bumping to the top front corner and in a fine wraparound band to the rear board. Signed by Shore on the half title page. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stephen Shore: Selected Works 1973-1981 (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Aperture, New York
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597113883
• ISBN 13: 9781597113885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places is indisputably a canonic body of work―a touchstone for those interested in photography and the American landscape. Remarkably, despite having been the focus of numerous shows and books, including the eponymous 1982 Aperture classic (expanded and reissued several times), this series of photographs has yet to be explored in its entirety. Over the past five years, Shore has scanned hundreds of negatives shot between 1973 and 1981. In this volume, Aperture has invited an international group of fifteen photographers, curators, authors, and cultural figures to select ten images apiece from this rarely seen cache of images. Each portfolio offers an idiosyncratic and revealing commentary on why this body of work continues to astound; how it has impacted the work of new generations of photography and the medium at large; and proposes new insight on Shore’s unique vision of America as transmuted in this totemic series.
Texts and image selections by Wes Anderson, Quentin Bajac, David Campany, Paul Graham, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, An-My Leê, Michael Lesy, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Francine Prose, Ed Ruscha, Britt Salvesen, Taryn Simon, Thomas Struth, and Lynne Tillman

About the Authors

At age fourteen, Stephen Shore had his work purchased by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 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-three, 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; George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago. He has received two NEA grants and a Guggenheim Foundation grant. Since 1982 he has been director of the photography program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.

Wes Anderson is an American writer and film director. His movies include Rushmore (1998) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).

Quentin Bajac is the Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

David Campany is a writer, curator, artist, and winner of the 2012 ICP Infinity Award for Writing. He teaches at the University of Westminister, London.

Paul Graham is a British photographer based in New York and has published more than fifteen books including a shimmer of possibility (2007).