Stephen Shore, Stephen Shore, 2014

Survey book, accompanying the MAPFRE Foundation traveling exhibition, and offering the most complete view to date of Stephen Shore’s work.

The book presents a wide selection of images from the author’s various works, with texts by Horacio Fernández, Sandra Phillips, and an interview with Stephen Shore by David Campany.
In this publication, Shore’s work is collected, interpreted, and analyzed from a unique historical and cross-cutting perspective, never before attempted: from his early black-and-white shots in New York, through Texas, to the reportages American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, photographs of landscapes, archaeological finds in Israel, and then back to New York City, up to his most recent work in Ukraine and Arizona. The book highlights Stephen Shore’s connection to the tradition of American photography, the influences of Walker Evans, his association with Andy Warhol and the Factory, his relationships with his master-colleagues in contemporary photography, his choice of new tools, and his always precise and conscious gaze. Page after page, we see the evolution, from project to project, of an original, authentic, and innovative style, attentive and poetic, capable of recounting reality and its changes.