Stephen Shore
Holden St., North Adams, Massachusetts

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Artist Stephen Shore (American, born 1947)American, born 1947

CultureAmerican

Titles

Holden St., North Adams, Massachusetts

DateJuly 13, 1974

Place depictedNorth Adams, Massachusetts, United States

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsSheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores

Object number76.251

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Target Collection of American Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionIn
1972 Stephen Shore and a friend set out for Amarillo, Texas from the East
Coast. Using a large format 8˝ x 10˝ camera, Shore took pictures along the way,
which transform seemingly banal places through their careful use of color,
light, and composition. Shore published this group of pictures in Uncommon Places, about which MoMA
Curator John Szarkowski wrote, “A Shore picture is very classical in spirit, very
quiet, very poised, very much at rest, very much having to do with the moments
between events…”
Provenance[The Cronin Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited "Evocative Presence: Twentieth Century Photographs in the Museum Collection", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston February 27 - May 1, 1988

Exhibited "Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures",
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston December 3 - February 25, 2007
Austin Museum of Art May 19 - August 12, 2007

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