A leading figure in American photography, Stephen Shore has spent a lifetime photographing his country’s rural and urban landscapes and documenting their evolution. Published on the occasion of a major retrospective exhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, this book approaches Shore’s work through an unexplored prism: that of the vehicular.
Territory, a major theme in American photography due to the country’s distinctive geography and wide-open spaces, is intimately linked to American society itself. Vehicular & Vernacular shows how Stephen Shore has used various means of locomotion (car, train, plane and even drone) to explore, visit and experience the territory, and how his travels have shaped his work. From one of his earliest black-and-white series, Los Angeles in 1969, to the celebrated American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, Stephen Shore places great emphasis on the automobile, which moves from the status of subject to that of photographic medium. The car will always be used in photography, and this rereading of Shore’s work aims to observe how the American vernacular, the American way of life, is made visible by Stephen Shore through the vehicle. The book explores a dozen important series up to his most recent work. The photographer has engaged in ongoing experimentation, notably using the drone in the 2020s to bear witness to the traces of land development shaping new spaces.
The images in the book are accompanied by a previously unpublished interview between Clément Chéroux, Director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, and Stephen Shore, shedding new light on the photographer’s work.
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