Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979 (Signed First Edition)

SHORE, Stephen and Britt Salvesen

ISBN 10: 1912339706 / ISBN 13: 9781912339709

Published by Mack, London, 2020

First edition. Hardcover. Features an essay by Britt Salvesen. A recent collection of color photographs from Shore whose seminal book "Uncommon Places" is widely considered one of the better photography books of the last 50 years. Includes numerous color images by Shore taken in the years 1971-1979. A fine copy in black cloth boards with color plate inset into the front cover. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Shore on a plate affixed to the rear pastedown. Still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Seller Inventory # 205714

Synopsis:

"Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979 offers an alternative account of one of the most fabled episodes in photographic history: the cross-country journeys that produced Stephen Shore’s luminous new vision of the American landscape, Uncommon Places. Along with his large-format camera, Shore also brought a 35mm Leica on his travels. The images made with it, on luminous colour slide film, are intimate, spontaneous and personal, while retaining Shore’s studied formal sensitivity. In these entirely unseen photographs, a parallel iteration of an iconic vision emerges like a piece of music played in a new key. The vocabulary is familiar: highways and homes, phone boxes, fast food and sun-strewn parking lots. But the alternative format unmistakably re-envisions these subjects through distinct experiments with composition, attitude, and colour. Transparencies uncovers both a detail-oriented survey of the American landscape of the 1970s and a rigorous, imaginative exercise in form by an undisputed modern master. With an afterword by Britt Salvesen, curator at LACMA, titled 'Ordinary Speech: The Vernacular in Stephen Shore’s Early 35mm Photography'."

About the Author: Le travail de Stephen Shore a été largement publié et exposé au cours des 45 dernières années. A 23 ans, il est le premier photographe vivant à exposer en solo au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York depuis Alfred Stieglitz, 40 ans auparavant. Plus de 25 livres ont été publiés sur les photographies de Stephen Shore, dont Uncommon Places: The Complete Works et American Surfaces; ces œuvres sont aujourd’hui considérées comme des jalons décisifs dans l’histoire de la photographie. Shore est représenté par 303 Gallery (New York) et Sprüth Magers (Londres et Berlin).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979...
Publisher: Mack, London
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Hardcover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition