Stephen shore: uncommon places : the complete works

2 Expanded edition. — Aperture, 2015. — 208 p. — ISBN-10: 1597113034, ISBN-13: 978-1597113038. 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 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 Stands At The Root Of What Has Become A Vital Photographic Tradition Over The Past Forty Years. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, Published By Aperture In 2004, Presents 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 Twenty Rediscovered Images And A Statement Explaining What It Means To Expand A Series Now Many Decades Old. 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 In These Images Retains Precise Internal Systems Of Gestures In Composition And Light, Through Which A Parking Lot Emptied Of People, A Hotel Bedroom, Or A Building On A Side Street Assumes Both An Archetypal Aura And An Ambiguously Personal Importance. In Contrast To His Signature Landscapes With Which Uncommon Places Is Often Associated, This Expanded Survey Reveals Equally Remarkable Collections Of Interiors And Portraits. -- Publisher's Description. Artists Note, An Uncommon Cornucopia -- Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places / Stephan Schmidt-wulffen -- Plates -- Stephan Shore In Conversation With Lynne Tillman -- Biographical Notes. Stephen Shore ; Essay By Stephan Schmidt-wulffen ; Conversation With Lynne Tillman. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 205-207).