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Title: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works by Stephen Shore, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen ISBN: 1-931788-34-0 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Between Gorsky, Sternfeld & Eggleston
Comment: This is a book I've been waiting for. I saw some of Stephen Shore's work in a New York gallery last fall and was very impressed. I was sad not to see some of this work in the new Thames & Hudson book, but I am by no means heartbroken.
Shore has added quite a bit of weight to previously published Uncommon Places and the book is well suited to anyone interested in the development of his style.
The work demonstrates a very interesting vein in the "new republic" tradition running very excitingly through American photography now. It is a very democratic body of work. It lacks the now 'oh-so' tired irony that was a hallmark of much late nineties work both in the US and UK.
The photographs that are presented to us are -on face value -seemingly humdrum. A street corner with telegraph poles, a motel bathroom with water in the bath. But on closer inspection there is a haunting beauty to the images; an aching sadness of dislocation, but at the same time oddly uplifting.
These "any-town, anyplace" photographs are perhaps a celebration of our own lives in our own environments. The familiar denies the beauty of our surroundings. What Shore does so eloquently is show us how to look at our world again. There's no politics here, no judgement; this is a straightforward depiction of our homes, towns, cities and countryside that we don't see because our lives are too rushed and complicated to stop and for half an hour stand by Mr Shore's shoulder and take a peak at what he loves about his world. This is a beautifully contemplative set of pictures, the antithesis of the brash, ironic-political, scathing nature of New British Colour.
As with Sternfeld, Shore uses large format and (what I can only assume is) slow speed colour film to draw out a huge amount of detail from his low contrast images. As one looks closer and closer at each print, one cannot help being mesmerised. It almost seems like there's more detail here than in reality. If we were to analyse at this level of detail some of Mr Shore's subjects (if ever we stopped to see them) we'd probably get arrested, or maybe committed. But we get two opportunities with Uncommon Places; we get the chance to spend time absorbed by the huge detail of these scenes, and we get the enormous benefit of seeing the world as through Stephen Shore's eyes. And the world is a better place for it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Color is Good
Comment: This book is an excellent journey through color photography. Stephen Shore uses space and color in a way to descripe a place like no other.
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Title: Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects by Joel Sternfeld, Joel Sternfeld, Katy Siegel ISBN: 1891024779 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Diane Arbus Revelations by DOON ARBUS ISBN: 0375506209 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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Title: A Story Book Life by Philip-Lorca diCorcia ISBN: 1931885230 Publisher: Twin Palms Pub Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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Title: Cruel and Tender : The Real in the 20th Century Photograph by Emma Dexter, Thomas Weski ISBN: 1854375164 Publisher: Tate Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Cindy Sherman: Film Stills by Cindy Sherman, Peter Galassi ISBN: 0870705075 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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