Photography Quotes by Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore

A lot of the photography I’m doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.

Instagram

Photography

Thinking

Stephen Shore

A work can do many things at once, and it doesn’t have to be just about the world, it could also be about photography, it could be about perception, it could be an exploration of the medium. It could be a document, it could be a visual poetry, and it could be a formal exploration all at the same time.

Perception

Photography

World

Stephen Shore

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

Ordinary

Photography

Verge

Stephen Shore

I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it’s that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I’m interested in.

Everyday

Mean

Photography

Stephen Shore

I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this is very different to the way it was for me, which was that I wanted to understand photography and the world and myself.

Artist

Motivation

Photography

Stephen Shore

I’ve been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too.

College

Photography

Years

Stephen Shore

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

Order

Photographer

Photography

Stephen Shore

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene – simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.

Art

Creativity

Photography

Stephen Shore

There’s something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can be a natural landscape untouched by man and I can take one step back and include a guardrail and change the meaning of the picture radically… I can take a picture of a person at one moment and make them look contemplative and photograph them two seconds later and make them look frivolous.

Art

Creativity

Photography

Stephen Shore

This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the whole world and every decision you make imposes an order on it. The question is to what extent it’s an idealized order I’m imposing or is it an order that grows out of what the world looks like.

Essence

Order

Photography

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Advantage

Aesthetic

Art

Artist

Attention

Attitude

Autism

Beautiful

Bed

Block

Cameras

Challenges

College

Cost

Creative

Creativity

Doe

Draws

Essence

Everyday

Feels

Film

Giving

Hot

Instagram

Kind

Levels

Long

Looks

Meals

Mean

Mets

Motivation

Native

Natural

Numbers

Order

Ordinary

Party

Pay

People

Perception

Persons

Photograph

Photographer

Photography

Pieces

Pot

Problem

Realizing

Scene

Sheets

Sometimes

Son

Special

Thinking

Toilets

Trying

Verge

Viewers

Vision

Wind

World

Writing

Years

Photography Quotes by Stephen Shore

A lot of the photography I’m doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it’s that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I’m interested in.

I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this is very different to the way it was for me, which was that I wanted to understand photography and the world and myself.

I’ve been the head of the photography program at Bard College for over 30 years, and I take that as seriously as I do my photography. My time is devoted to that too.

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

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