Photographers

Stephen Shore (born 1947 in New York City) is an American photographer celebrated for his pioneering use of color and his attention to the banal details of everyday American life. His seminal works, including Uncommon Places and American Surfaces, reshaped the status of color photography within fine art. In 1971 he became the first living photographer since Alfred Stieglitz to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he later participated in the influential New Topographics exhibition. Shore has received major recognitions such as a Guggenheim Fellowship (1975) and an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society (2010). Since 1982 he has directed the Photography Program at Bard College.