BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 12.75 x 10.25 in. / 208 pgs / 176 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 2/24/2015 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION Contact Publisher Catalog:
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781597113038TRADE List Price: $65.00 CDN $75.00
AVAILABILITY Not Available
Expanded edition of Shore’s influential photobook classic
APERTURE
Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
The Complete Works
Text by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen. Interview by Lynne Tillman.
Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore's legendary Uncommon Places has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, and his large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape inaugurated a vital photographic tradition. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, published by Aperture in 2005, presented a definitive collection of the landmark series, and in the span of a decade has become a contemporary classic. Now, for this lushly produced reissue, the artist has added nearly 20 rediscovered images and a statement explaining what it means to expand a classic series. Like Robert Frank and Walker Evans before him, Shore discovered a hitherto unarticulated vision of America via highway and camera. Approaching his subjects with cool objectivity, Shore retains precise systems of gestures in composition and light through which a hotel bedroom or a building on a side street assumes both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal importance. An essay by critic and curator Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen and a conversation with Shore by writer Lynne Tillman examine his methodology and elucidate his roots in Pop and Conceptual art. The texts are illustrated with reproductions from Shore's earlier series American Surfaces and Amarillo: Tall in Texas. At age 14 Stephen Shore (born 1947) had his work purchased by Edward Steichen for The Museum of Modern Art, New York. At 17 Shore was a regular at Andy Warhol's Factory, producing an important photographic document of the scene, and in 1971 at the age of 23 he became the first living photographer since Alfred Stieglitz 40 years earlier to have a one-man show at the Met. He has had numerous one-man shows, among others at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and The Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1982 he has been Director of the Photography Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
"West Ninth Avenue, Amarillo, Texas, October 2, 1974" is reproduced from Uncommon Places: The Complete Works.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Details
The Editors
On any list of must-own photo books, Stephen Shore's 1982 classic, Uncommon Places, deserves pride of place. Shore, now 67, helped spearhead the use of color (once the exclusive province of advertising and fashion) in fine-art photography while documenting the American landscape, transforming the banal (diners, back alleys, ticky-tacky suburbs) into extraordinary tableau. Now the book is being reissued with 20 previously unseen images, as Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, giving you a eason to search for a collectible first edition on Amazon.
FROM THE BOOK
PUBLICATION HISTORY
■ Uncommon Places first published in hardback by Aperture in 1982
■ Uncommon Places: The Complete Works published by Aperture in 2005
■ This expanded 2015 Aperture edition includes 20 new plates
Continuing our week-long celebration of seminal photography books featured in the National Gallery of Art's current exhibition, From the Library: Photobooks After Frank, "Perrine, Florida, November 11, 1977" is reproduced from Aperture's new, expanded edition of Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places, first published in 1982 and now including 20 new plates plus a statement from Shore explaining what it means to expand a classic series. He writes, "Over the course of each passing decade, I keep returning to this body of work and rediscovering images. Friends ask me why this keeps happening. I have three answers: Technical... Logical/Aesthetic... Hard Truth. I'm a terrible editor of my work." continue to blog
"Trail’s End Restaurant, Kanab, Utah, August 10, 1973" is one of the most iconic images from one of the most iconic photobooks of the twentieth century. Originally published by Aperture in 1982, Stephen Shore's celebrated Uncommon Places has been published this year in an expanded new Aperture edition featuring 20 new plates, gorgeously printed and impeccably sequenced. "On any list of must-own photo books," Details writes, "Stephen Shore's 1982 classic, Uncommon Places, deserves pride of place." We couldn't agree more. It's at the center of our 2015 Holiday Gift Guide for Photo Collectors. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 12.75 x 10.25 in. / 208 pgs / 176 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $65.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $75 ISBN: 9781597113038 PUBLISHER: Aperture AVAILABLE: 2/24/2015 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: No longer our product AVAILABILITY: Not Available
Published by Aperture. Text by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen. Interview by Lynne Tillman.
Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore's legendary Uncommon Places has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, and his large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape inaugurated a vital photographic tradition. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, published by Aperture in 2005, presented a definitive collection of the landmark series, and in the span of a decade has become a contemporary classic. Now, for this lushly produced reissue, the artist has added nearly 20 rediscovered images and a statement explaining what it means to expand a classic series. Like Robert Frank and Walker Evans before him, Shore discovered a hitherto unarticulated vision of America via highway and camera. Approaching his subjects with cool objectivity, Shore retains precise systems of gestures in composition and light through which a hotel bedroom or a building on a side street assumes both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal importance. An essay by critic and curator Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen and a conversation with Shore by writer Lynne Tillman examine his methodology and elucidate his roots in Pop and Conceptual art. The texts are illustrated with reproductions from Shore's earlier series American Surfaces and Amarillo: Tall in Texas.
At age 14 Stephen Shore (born 1947) had his work purchased by Edward Steichen for The Museum of Modern Art, New York. At 17 Shore was a regular at Andy Warhol's Factory, producing an important photographic document of the scene, and in 1971 at the age of 23 he became the first living photographer since Alfred Stieglitz 40 years earlier to have a one-man show at the Met. He has had numerous one-man shows, among others at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and The Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1982 he has been Director of the Photography Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
