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Stephen Shore Quotes

I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this is very different to the way it was for me, which was that I wanted to understand photography and the world and myself Picture Quote #1

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable Picture Quote #1

I’m always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content Picture Quote #1

I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it’s that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I’m interested in Picture Quote #1

I know that people think of my work from the 70s as American, but I’ve been going to other places for a long time Picture Quote #1

A photograph has edges the world does not Picture Quote #1

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If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism Picture Quote #1

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it Picture Quote #1

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it Picture Quote #1

There’s something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can be a natural landscape untouched by man and I can take one step back and include a guardrail and change the meaning of the picture radically... I can take a picture of a person at one moment and make them look contemplative and photograph them two seconds later and make them look frivolous Picture Quote #1

I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it’s that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I’m interested in Picture Quote #1

With a painting, you’re taking basic building blocks and making something that’s more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it Picture Quote #1

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I do what feels natural, but I can’t say I haven’t thought about it Picture Quote #1

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used Picture Quote #1

I don’t have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it’s so detailed that the viewer can take time and read it, and look at something here, and look at something there, and they can pay attention to a lot more Picture Quote #1

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I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this is very different to the way it was for me, which was that I wanted to understand photography and the world and myself (Stephen Shore Quotes) Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable (Stephen Shore Quotes) I’m always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content. (Stephen Shore Quotes) I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it’s that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I’m interested in. (Stephen Shore Quotes) I know that people think of my work from the 70s as American, but I’ve been going to other places for a long time. (Stephen Shore Quotes) A photograph has edges the world does not (Stephen Shore Quotes) If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism (Stephen Shore Quotes) The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it (Stephen Shore Quotes) I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it (Stephen Shore Quotes) There’s something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can be a natural landscape untouched by man and I can take one step back and include a guardrail and change the meaning of the picture radically... I can take a picture of a person at one moment and make them look contemplative and photograph them two seconds later and make them look frivolous (Stephen Shore Quotes) I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it’s that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I’m interested in (Stephen Shore Quotes) With a painting, you’re taking basic building blocks and making something that’s more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it (Stephen Shore Quotes) I do what feels natural, but I can’t say I haven’t thought about it (Stephen Shore Quotes) I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used (Stephen Shore Quotes) I don’t have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it’s so detailed that the viewer can take time and read it, and look at something here, and look at something there, and they can pay attention to a lot more (Stephen Shore Quotes)