Stephen Shore - Uncommon Places (HARDCOVER, ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET) - 1982

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Here in the TRUE FIRST ORIGINAL AMERICAN PRINTING from 1982.
SCARCE HARDCOVER EDITION WITH SEPARATE DUSTJACKET (there was also a paperback edition same time).

VERY FRESH CONDITION.

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Aperture, Millerton, New York. 1982. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with full maroon cloth and jacket. 243 x 283 mm. 64 pages. Design by Wendy Byrne. 61 colour photographs. Photos and text by Stephen Shore. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts, flaps complete, so not price-clipped (like so often), little trace of use, so with the usual problem of discolouration along the spine (happens to almost all copies cause of a material problem, but here much better than usual) and with light creases at the bottom of front. Overall very fine, much better than usual condition.

Fantastic, very important color photobook in the scarce hardcover edition -
in great condition with complete original dustjacket.

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'Stephen Shore (born 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include Uncommon Places (1982) and American Surfaces (1999), photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in the 1970s. In 1975 Shore received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1971, he was the first living photographer to be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where he had a solo show of black and white photographs. He was selected to participate in the influential group exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House (Rochester, New York), in 1975-1976.
In 1976 he had a solo exhibition of color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art.
In 2010 he received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society.
Shore was born as sole son of Jewish parents who ran a handbag company. He was interested in photography from an early age. Self-taught, he received a Kodak Junior darkroom set for his sixth birthday from a forward-thinking uncle. He began to use a 35 mm camera three years later and made his first color photographs. At ten he received a copy of Walker Evans's book, American Photographs, which influenced him greatly. His career began at fourteen, when he presented his photographs to Edward Steichen, then curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Recognizing Shore's talent, Steichen bought three black and white photographs of New York City. At sixteen, Shore met Andy Warhol and began to frequent Warhol's studio, the Factory, photographing Warhol and the creative people that surrounded him. In 1971, he was the first living photographer to be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, with a show of black and white, sequential images.
Shore then embarked on a series of cross-country road trips, making "on the road" photographs of American and Canadian landscapes. In 1972, he made the journey from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas, that provoked his interest in color photography. Viewing the streets and towns he passed through, he conceived the idea to photograph them in color, first using 35 mm hand-held camera and then a 4×5" view camera before finally settling on the 8×10 format. The change to a large format camera is believed to have happened because of a conversation with John Szarkowski. In 1974 a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant funded further work, followed in 1975 by a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Along with others, especially William Eggleston, Shore is recognized as one of the leading photographers who established color photography as an art form. His book Uncommon Places (1982) was influential for new color photographers of his own and later generations. Photographers who have acknowledged his influence on their work include Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Martin Parr, Joel Sternfeld and Thomas Struth.
Shore photographed fashion stories for Another Magazine, Elle, Daily Telegraph and many others. Commissioned by Italian brand Bottega Veneta, he photographed socialite Lydia Hearst, filmmaker Liz Goldwyn and model Will Chalker for the brand's spring/summer 2006 advertisements.[citation needed]
Shore has been the director of the photography department at Bard College since 1982.
His American Surfaces series, a travel diary made between 1972 and 1973 with photographs of "friends he met, meals he ate, toilets he sat on", was not published until 1999, then again in 2005.
In recent years, Shore has been working in Israel, the West Bank, and Ukraine.'
(Wikipedia)