Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography is an impressionistic scrapbook that documents the rich and surprising touchstones that make up over half a century of ground-breaking work. With essays, photographs, stories, and excerpts that draw on Shore’s decades of teaching, this is an essential handbook for anyone interested in learning more about mastering one’s craft and the distinct threads that come together to inform a creative voice. As much as offering meditation on the influences of a single artist, Modern Instances proposes a new way of thinking about the world around us, in which even the smallest moment can become a source of boundless inspiration – if only we pay attention.
‘Modern Instances will no doubt affect how you make or appreciate photographs – it might even alter how you see.’ David Fincher
‘Modern Instances is more than just a collection of musings about a life lived in the arts. The book itself is an artwork.’ Washington Post
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