Stephen Shore Quotes About Photography

• 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.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Order, Photographer

• Ver algo espectacular y reconocerlo como una posibilidad fotográfica no es dar un salto muy grande. Pero ver algo ordinario, algo que se ve todos los días, y reconocerlo como una posibilidad fotográfica, eso es lo que me interesa.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Vision, Ordinary

  "Stephen Shore's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

• 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.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Mean, Everyday

• 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.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Perception, World

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Stephen Shore

  Fotografía, Arte, Creatividad

• Me reúno con jóvenes artistas y veo claramente que para algunos la principal motivación es conseguir una exposición en Chelsea. Me sorprende que esto sea muy diferente de lo que fue para mí, que quería entender la fotografía, el mundo y a mí mismo.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Motivation, Artist

• With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Block, Order

  "On The Nature of Photographs February 20th, 2015". Interview with Luc Sante, aperture.org. February 20, 2015.

• 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.

  Stephen Shore

  Fotografía, Arte, Creatividad

  Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

• 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.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, College, Years

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Order, Essence

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

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Thinking, Instagram

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Ordinary, Verge

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