Ulrich Wüst: Stadtbilder/Spätsommer/Randlagen (Cityscapes/Late
Summer/Peripheries) is at C│O Berlin, until 24 April 2016
This was
a treat – a substantial survey of Shore’s work from his early days hanging
around Warhol’s Factory up to his current projects. Shore is my kind of
photographer – a scribbled note I made, from one of the wall texts in
the show, characterises the work as “neutral, emotionless, apparently anonymous
(like the subject itself) snapshots”, and as “anti-style – style that seems to
be devoid of style”. Great stuff.
Shore was
a precocious artist: as the C│O Berlin newspaper (No.10 / 02.2016) recounts, at
the age of 14, in 1961, he rang up Edward Steichen, then MoMA’s Director of the
Photography Dept., and said, “I’d like to show you my work”; Steichen bought
three of his pictures! When Shore was 18, in 1965, he met Andy Warhol who
invited him to visit the Factory. Shore was at the Factory nearly every day for
the next two years photographing the scene. In 1971, aged 24, he was the first
living photographer to be given a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The next year he set out on journeys around America with a 35mm camera: “I was
photographing almost every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or
waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.” These
pictures became American Surfaces. Dissatisfied with the limitations of 35mm
negatives Shore subsequently travelled America (1973-1981) with a large format
camera which, of course, transformed his approach from casual to carefully
considered, and resulted in pictures of extraordinary detail which became the series Uncommon Places.
Read a review by Francesca Wade.
(Click on images to enlarge.)
Read a review by Francesca Wade.
(Click on images to enlarge.)
Stephen
Shore, [Warhol], c1965/7
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Stephen Shore, [Warhol], c1965/7 |
Stephen Shore, West Palm Beach, Florida, April - May 1973 (‘American Surfaces’) |
Stephen
Shore (‘American Surfaces’)
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Stephen
Shore, Room 125, Westbank Motel, Idaho Falls,
Idaho, July 18, 1973 (‘Uncommon
Places’)
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Stephen
Shore, South
of Klamath Falls, U.S. 97, Oregon, July 21, 1973 (‘Uncommon Places’)
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Stephen
Shore, Natural Bridge, New York, July 31, 1974 (‘Uncommon Places’)
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Stephen
Shore, Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue,
Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975 (‘Uncommon Places’)
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Ulrich Wüst,
from Stadtbilder (Cityscapes),
1979-83
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Ulrich Wüst, from Randlagen
(Peripheries), since 1994
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Ulrich Wüst, from Spätsommer
(Late Summer), 1989-90
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Ulrich Wüst, from Spätsommer
(Late Summer), 1989-90
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Ulrich Wüst, from Spätsommer
(Late Summer), 1989-90
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