The Biographical Landscape

The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968-1993

June 25, 2005 - October 16, 2005

: Stephen Shore Twenty-First Street and Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1974 1974 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.; Stephen Shore Trail's End Restaurant, Kanab, Utah, August 10, 1973 1973 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.; Stephen Shore U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973 1973 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.; Stephen Shore Room 316, Howard Johnson's, Battle Creek, Michigan, July 6, 1973 1973 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.; Stephen Shore Room 28, Holiday Inn, Medicine Hat, Alberta, August 18, 1974 1974 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.; Stephen Shore West Ninth Avenue, Amarillo, Texas, October 2, 1974 1974 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.; Stephen Shore Fifth Street and Broadway, Eureka, California, September 2, 1974 1974 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.; Stephen Shore Twentieth Street and Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1974 1974 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.; Stephen Shore U.S. 10, Post Falls, Idaho, August 25, 1974 1974 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.; Stephen Shore Presidio, Texas, February 21, 1975 1975 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.; Stephen Shore Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975 1975 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.; Stephen Shore Self-portrait, New York, March 20, 1976 1976 C-print. Courtesy Aperture.

About the Exhibition

The Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1968–1993 presents approximately 120 rarely-exhibited color prints and photographic projects of one of the most influential American photographers. The exhibition comprises works from Stephen Shore’s key series, American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, as well as his later landscape photographs. At the heart of the exhibition is Uncommon Places, Shore’s quintessential series on the American vernacular landscape photographed between 1973 and 1978 on road trips across the U.S. and Canada. The exhibition will also include examples of his early conceptual series and some of his most recent iPhoto books. The Biographical Landscape highlights Shore's important contribution to photography in the late 20th century by revealing the evolution of his influential early work and presenting the breadth of this groundbreaking use of large format color photography.

The exhibition is curated by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen.

Aperture Foundation, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts, has organized this traveling exhibition and produced the accompanying publications.

Special thanks to Jekel Vineyards, Skyy90, Bel Arbor Vineyards, and Bohemia Imported Beer for their contributions to the opening reception.