Stephen Shore2017

"Stephen Shore: Elements is inspired by the Eakins Press Foundation's celebrated (and first) publication, Message from the Interior by Walker Evans (1966), the large scale volume of Evans's images from a broad range of his splendid career. Like the Evans book, Shore's pictures have been carefully chosen to represent the fundamental poetry of his approach to the world through photographs. The twenty-four images (16 color and 8 black & white), from the last of his work with the 8x10 inch view camera, range in subject-place from New York's Hudson Valley, to the Yucatan, Italy, Texas, Israel, and Scotland. What connects these photographs through Shore's inimitable mastery of the medium are the elemental resonances of the earth, humanity, and time. From his early days as a teenager at Andy...