UPCOMING TALKS & BOOKS SIGNINGS

Strand Book Store

Wednesday 10 September

Join us for a very special conversation and signing with world renowned photographer Stephen Shore to celebrate the release of his new book Early Work. Shore will be in conversation with publisher Michael Mack and editor of the book Liv Constable-Maxwell.

Buy tickets here.

Wednesday, September 10
7:00 PM EST

Strand Book Store
Rare Book Room
828 Broadway 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10003
United States

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Oblong Books

Thursday 11 September

Join Stephen Shore for a talk and book signing to mark the launch of his new book Early Work. Collecting for the first time entirely unseen photographs made during Shore’s teenage years between 1960 and 1965, Early Work demonstrates Shore’s already-complex understanding of the photographic form, and the attention to which the young photographer approached his surroundings.

Register here

Thursday, September 11
6:00 PM EST

Oblong Books 
Oblong Rhinebeck
6422 Montgomery Street
Rhinebeck, NY 12572

About Early Work
 
At the age of six, Stephen Shore received a Kodak Darkroom kit, a gift that unearthed a passion and inquisitiveness that would go on to define his entire life. Shore began to develop a unique relationship to the chemical alchemy of the darkroom and to the camera itself: a tool through which he would uncover the characters and complexities of the world around him. 

Early Work collects for the first time the entirely unseen photographs created during Shore’s early teenage years between 1960 and 1965, a period of rich experimentation that precedes his time working with Andy Warhol at The Factory. These sophisticated and ambitious images demonstrate Shore’s already-complex understanding of the photographic form, and the particular attention with which he approached his surroundings. It offers a unique record of the vibrant energy of New York in the early 1960s, and reveals the themes that provided a constant source of interest for the young photographer. 

Above all, Early Work offers an authoritative account of the innate sensibility with which Shore approached not only his craft but the world around him, from this early age.

Can’t make these events?
Purchase a signed copy of Early Work here.

COMING THIS FALL

At the age of six, Stephen Shore received a Kodak Darkroom kit, a gift that unearthed a passion and inquisitiveness that would go on to define his entire life. Shore began to develop a unique relationship to the chemical alchemy of the darkroom and to the camera itself: a tool through which he would uncover the characters and complexities of the world around him. 

Early Work collects for the first time the entirely unseen photographs created during Shore’s early teenage years between 1960 and 1965, a period of rich experimentation that precedes his time working with Andy Warhol at The Factory. These sophisticated and ambitious images demonstrate Shore’s already-complex understanding of the photographic form, and the particular attention with which he approached his surroundings. It offers a unique record of the vibrant energy of New York in the early 1960s, and reveals the themes that provided a constant source of interest for the young photographer. 

Above all, Early Work offers an authoritative account of the innate sensibility with which Shore approached not only his craft but the world around him, from this early age. 

Includes a new essay by Stephen Shore 

PRE-ORDER NOW
A limited number of signed copies are available


This title is due to ship in August.

For more information or to pre-order:
www.mackbooks.us

AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING

These lectures can be watched live on Zoom
and will be available for a two week period after that.

The lectures will take place at 18:30 CET

To purchase a Zoom link for the four lectures CLICK HERE

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDERING TICKETS

• Select the blue “Réserver” link toward the bottom of the page.
• Choose the number of tickets (Zoom links)
•Enter your surname (“Nom”) and given name (Prénom) and email address. • Select “adjuster au panier”. (The tickets are €80)
• Select “Aller au panier”
• Select “Valider mon panier”
• Select “Accepter les conditions”
• You may be asked to create an account: email + password (at least 8 characters)
• You will be asked our nationality. There’s a drop down list. The United States is “États-Unis”

I hope you can watch and enjoy!

STEPHEN SHORE

Stephen Shore has been announced as the inaugural recipient of the Chanel Chair in Photography at Jeu de Paume, the Parisian museum of photography, film, and electronic media. To mark the occasion, Shore will present a series of 4 masterclasses.

Stephen Shore Masterclass

From May 12 to 16, 2025
Jeu De Paume – Paris

The lectures will be in English with no French translation.

What is a photograph and how do we perceive it? This series of four lectures will explore the formal attributes of a photograph – how the world is translated, transformed into a photograph. They will explore the formal tools of that transformation and how those tools implement and require the imposition of structure. Finally, the lectures will describe the cognitive understanding of the image. This series begins with what a photograph is physical and formally and ends with how we ultimately receive the image.

Lecture 1 • 12.05.2025 • 18:30 – 20:00
The Nature of Photographs.
“A photograph is not what was photographed. It’s something else.” (Winogrand).

Lecture 2 • 13.05.2025 • 18:30 – 20:00
Form and pressure
Photography as an analytic medium: The relationship of form to content.

Lecture 3 • 15.05.2025 • 18:30 – 20:00
Attention
Experiencing the world: Paying attention to the mundane.

Lecture 4 • 16.05.2025 • 18:30 – 20:00
The Mental Level.
The level on which we ultimately experience a photograph.

For more information:
www.jeudepaume.org

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The Enduring Present :
A Stephen Shore Retrospective

Three Shadows Photography Art Center
155A Caochangdi,
Chaoyang District, Beijing


14 September – 1 December 2024

Tuesday to Sunday
10:00-18:00
Closed on Mondays


For more info visit :
www.threeshadows.cn

FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY

Church and Second Streets, Easton, Pennsylvania, June 20th, 1974

Fifty years ago today, I borrowed a friend’s 8×10 view camera and drove from New York City to Easton, Pennsylvania.  For the past year I had been using a 4×5 camera and now wanted to try out a larger format. I set up  the camera at the intersection of Church Street and 2nd Street. This was the first exposure I made. I remember vividly the experience of looking under the dark cloth at the 8×10 ground glass, of adjusting the camera. I had the sensation that I had found the tool I had been looking for (although until that moment, I wasn’t aware that I had been searching for one). It felt familiar. I knew this camera. It became my primary camera for the next 28 years.

T I N W O R K S

We are thrilled to announce the inclusion of Stephen Shore’s work in
The Lay of the Land, a new exhibition at Tinworks Art.

Agnes Denes’ Wheatfield—An Inspiration. The seed is in the ground, will be featured alongside work by five artists inspired by the land of the American West: James Castle, Layli Long Soldier, Lucy Raven, Stephen Shore, and Robbie Wing.

With an intergenerational mix of established and emerging artists, iconic work and newly commissioned installations, The Lay of the Land explores how land in the west is represented. The artworks included connect to land and place through their physical materiality—wheat, sediment, soot, clay, the sound of passing trains—and subject matter—the natural or industrial forces that have shaped the land of the west and depictions of western places shaped by memory or technology.

Opening Celebration
Saturday, June 15
6-9pm.

719 N Ida Ave
Between Cottonwood and Aspen
Bozeman, MT 59715

The exhibition will be on view at Tinworks Art from
June 15 through October 19, 2024.

Tinworks is free and open to all.

Find out more information about the exhibition HERE

FONDATION HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON
UPCOMING EXHIBITION :

STEPHEN SHORE
VEHICULAR & VERNACULAR

June 1st to September 15, 2024

Exhibition Curator
Clément Chéroux
Director, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

With over a hundred images shot between 1969 and 2021 across the United States, Vehicular & Vernacular is the first retrospective of Stephen Shore’s work in Paris in nineteen years. On view at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson until September 15, the exhibition shows the photographer’s renowned series — Uncommon Places and American Surfaces — alongside lesser-known projects never shown in France. A fragment of the Signs of Life exhibition in which Shore participated in 1976 is exceptionally recreated for the occasion. Finally, the photographer’s most recent series, shot using drones, is exhibited for the first time in Europe.

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