I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.
Stephen ShoreI'm not interested in doing the same kind of picture over and over again. I pose problems for myself. Sometimes they are aesthetic problems and sometimes they are logistical problems.
Stephen ShoreBack in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now itโs twice that.
Stephen ShoreIf I only try to solve the problems I set for myself, then I'm limited by what I can conceive of. I can't solve a problem I can't conceive. But if someone else gives me a visual problem, it can be out of the whole realm of my normal practice.
Stephen ShoreThe context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
Stephen ShoreThere's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by the camera, that you can't use the limitations or the transformation to have an observation that is a very subtle perception of the world.
Stephen Shore