Stephen Shore’s pioneering work has shaped contemporary photography for over five decades. He was the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, and his influential exhibitions at Light Gallery in the 1970s helped establish color photography as a serious artistic medium.
Shore’s work is included in the collections of major institutions worldwide. In 2017, the Museum of Modern Art presented a landmark retrospective spanning his entire career, cementing his status as a central figure in photographic history.
Shore has published more than 30 books, including Uncommon Places and American Surfaces. In 1998 he published The Nature of Photographs, a key text on visual perception, which he expands on in his forthcoming book The Mental Image, published by MACK. He has served as Director of the Photography Program and Susan Weber Professor in the Arts at Bard College since 1982. His work is represented by 303 Gallery in New York and Sprüth Magers in London, Berlin and Los Angeles.
His short essay, “The Gallatin River”, was published in Midnight Mind Number Ten.
Photo courtesy of Stephen Shore.