Uncommon Places Photographs

E-329: Aperture. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by The Aperture Press, Millerton, New York. 1982. 63 pgs. Illustrated with 61 Color Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Shore's landmark first monograph, a collection of 61 color photographs. Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore's legendary Uncommon Places has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, and his large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape inaugurated a vital photographic tradition. "Journeying back and forth across North America, Stephen Shore seizes upon a landscape of the commonplace--and transforms it into visions of classical beauty. These are scenes that would scarcely attract the attention of most travelers. Among them: an unpaved backstreet in Presidio, Texas; a nearly abandoned beach in Miami; a highway intersection near Kingman, Arizona; children playing on a sandbar in Yosemite; a softball game in Bozeman, Montana, and a plate of hotcakes on a diner's plastic-topped table." - At age 14 Stephen Shore (born 1947) had his work purchased by Edward Steichen for The Museum of Modern Art, New York. At 17 Shore was a regular at Andy Warhol's Factory, producing an important photographic document of the scene, and in 1971 at the age of 23 he became the first living photographer since Alfred Stieglitz 40 years earlier to have a one-man show at the Met. He has had numerous one-man shows, among others at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and The Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1982 he has been Director of the Photography Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. EB; New Images Book; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 63 pages .