The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968 – 1993
NORTH GALLERIES
October 7 – December 31, 2006

AUDIO:
A Conversation with Stephen Shore (35.2 MB) – discussion between the artist and Chief Curator Elizabeth Brown; and
Photographer Paul Berger on The Biographical Landscape (12 MB)

Stephen Shore. Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California, August 13, 1979. 1979.
Digital C-print. Courtesy of the artist and Aperture Foundation.

The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968–1993 presents approximately 120 rarely-exhibited color prints and photographic projects of one of the most influential American photographers. The exhibition comprises works from Stephen Shore’s key series, American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, as well as his later landscape photographs. At the heart of the exhibition is Uncommon Places, Shore’s quintessential series on the American vernacular landscape photographed between 1973 and 1982. Many of the works on view have never before been exhibited in the U.S., including original prints, objects from Shore’s earlier conceptual projects, and his obsessive daily logs from 1973. The Biographical Landscape illuminates the evolution of Shore’s influential work and gives a full picture of Shore’s articulate and groundbreaking use of large format photography as well as his great contribution to photography in the late 20th century.