Title:  Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
Author:  Essay by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Conversation by Lynne Tillman 
 
FIRST EDITION  
 
Format: Hardcover, Oversized  
Book condition:  Used -  Inside book is in Very Good condition.  
Cover:  Very Good. 
Dust Jacket:   Good to Very Good.  A closed tear near edge of the spine.  Dust jacket is protected with Mylar cover.    
 
Published by Aperture in 1982 and long unavailable, Stephen Shore's legendary Uncommon Places has influenced a generation of photographers. Among the first artists to take color beyond advertising and fashion photography, Shore's large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic tradition. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works presents a definitive collection of the original series, much of it never before published or exhibited. Like Robert Frank and Walker Evans before him, Shore discovered a hitherto unarticulated version of America via highway and camera. Approaching his subjects with cool objectivity, Shore's images retain precise internal systems of gestures in composition and light through which the objects before his lens assume both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal importance. In contrast to Shore's signature landscapes with which Un-common Places is often associated, this expanded survey reveals equally remarkable collections of interiors and portraits. As a new generation of artists expands on the projects of the New Topographic and New Color photographers of the seventies--Thomas Struth (whose first book was titled Unconscious Places), Andreas Gursky and Catherine Opie among them--Uncommon Places: The Complete Works provides a timely opportunity to reexamine the diverse implications of Shore's project and offers a fundamental primer for the last 30 years of large-format color photography.
 
Publisher:  Aperture, 2004 
 
Hardcover : 188 pages
 
Dimensions : 13.14 x 10.34 inches 
 
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