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Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places : The Complete Work
Edité par Thames & Hudson - 2014
"Stephen Shore captures the essence of the American landscape by framing particular, ordinary elements so that they reveal the universal and the extraordinary. The viewpoint of his camera is never special ; it is that of our own absent-minded eyes as we wander through familiar places doing ordinary things - waiting for a bus or running or errand. In Shore's photographs we discover the mislaid images that we ignored because of their very familiarity or rejected because of their banality. Our conscious minds seek more interesting or less objectionable scenes- Alpin peaks or Italians plazzas; in Shore's art we confront what we usually do not notice, streets and facades at once well known and remote, half remembered and half-forgotten. Shore's is the heart of the deadpan - rejecting exotic compositions, artful editing or facile simplification. He accepts the threadbare banality of the American scene, the jerry-rigged, down-at-heel seediness of our rural landscapes and the spatial looseness of our towns, recapturing the overfamiliar, making it poignant, coherent and almost lovable. - Robert Venturi, architect." (extrait de la quatrième de couverture)
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