ARTIST

Stephen Shore's photographs are attentive to ordinary scenes of daily experience, yet through color—and composition—Shore transforms the mundane into subjects of thoughtful meditation. A restaurant meal on a road trip, a billboard off a highway, and a dusty side street in a Texas town are all seemingly banal images, but upon reflection subtly imply meaning. Color photography attracted Shore for its ability to record the range and intensity of hues seen in life. In 1971, at age twenty-three, he became the first living photographer to have a one-person show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His 1982 book, Uncommon Places became a bible for young photographers seeking to work in color, because, along with that of William Eggleston, his work exemplified the fact that the medium could be considered art. Stephen Shore was born in New York in 1947. His work has been exhibited and collected at such venues as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Library of Congress, Washington DC, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He currently lives and works in New York.

CHARITY

The Photography Program at Bard Materials Fund is a collaboration between ARTISTS SUPPORT and the Bard College Photography Program. Our goal is to make the program accessible by raising money to cover the price of costly photographic materials and gear. Each student in need will receive a kit at the beginning of every semester. This kit will include all the equipment and materials needed in order to create work freely and complete the photography course, without any financial burden.