Todd Gehman
Seattle
The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968 – 1993 (10/07): Inspiring Career — 1 year ago
Worth visiting!
Having attended a lecture recently by Stephen Shore, I got a strong sense that his best days were behind him…maybe decades behind him. It’s great that he’s still active and experimental with his photography (remixing his own photographs, toying with cheap digital cameras, etc), but the new stuff he showed just wasn’t…well, good. Finally catching the show hanging at the Henry was a nice reminder that it doesn’t matter if he’s doing good work anymore. He’s already done as much as a single photographer needs to. What’s amazing is that any deliberate, large-format photographer can produce work that feels so alive and uncontrived. Fantastic stuff. Very little filler in this killer show.









