Signed; Stephen Shore - Vehiculaire Et Vernaculaire - 2024

Stephen Shore has spent his life photographing the rural and urban landscapes of his country and documenting their evolution. Published on the occasion of a major retrospective exhibition in Paris, this book approaches Shore’s work through an unexplored prism: that of the vehicular. A leading figure on the American scene, Stephen Shore has spent his life photographing the rural and urban landscapes of his country and documenting their evolution. Published on the occasion of a major retrospective exhibition in Paris, this book approaches Shore’s work through an unexplored prism: that of the vehicular. It shows how the photographer has used the different modes of transportation (car, train, airplane and even drone) to explore, visit and experiment with the territory, and how his travels have shaped his work. The landscape, a major theme in American photography due to the country’s distinctive geography and its vast spaces, is intimately linked to American society itself. Since one of his earliest black-and-white series, Los Angeles in 1969, through the famous American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, Stephen Shore has given significant space to the automobile, which moves from subject to photographic medium. The car will always be used for photography, and this re-reading of Shore’s work aims to observe how the American vernacular, the American way of life, is made visible by Stephen Shore thanks to the vehicle. The book explores about a dozen major series up to his most recent work. The photographer has engaged in ongoing experimentation, notably by using a drone in the 2020s to document the traces of territorial planning that shape new spaces. The images in the book are accompanied by an unpublished interview between Clément Chéroux, director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Stephen Shore, which will shed new light on the photographer’s work."