Postby Walter Glover » 18 Feb 2013, 16:06
The Nature Of Photographs By Stephen Shore - A Primer Publisher: Phaidon - ISBN 978 0 7148 5904 0
Well, let me declare my hand at the outset: Stephen Shore holds a high status in my pantheon of photographers.
Here is a fine volume of criticism in the tradition of folk like John Szarkowski - but very different. very visual. Very simple.
Perhaps it is best to quote from the work: This book explores ways of understanding the nature of photographs; and not only the most elegant or graceful photographs, but all photographs made with a camera and printed directly from the negative or a digital file. All photographic prints have qualities in common. These qualities determine how the world in front of the camera is transformed into a photograph; they also form the visual grammar that elucidates the photograph's meaning.
Walter Glover
"We see things not as they are. We see them as we are."
— Emanuel Kant