Transparencies
Subtitle: small camera works 1971-1979
By: Stephen Shore ; afterword, Britt Salvesen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: MACK
Published: 2020
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781912339709
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Pictorial works; Fotografie; Kleinbildkamera; Skurrilität; Umland
Other titles: Small camera works 1971-1979
Description: 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'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.