Comments on: Stephen Shore: It's the Little Things That Count http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/05/30/stephen_shore_its_the_little_t/ Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:49:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Janet http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/05/30/stephen_shore_its_the_little_t/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Janet Thu, 31 May 2007 15:32:13 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/05/30/stephen_shore_its_the_little_t/#comment-71 Nice piece. Most people tart it up when they talk about Shore. Nice piece. Most people tart it up when they talk about Shore.

]]> By: Eric Levin http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/05/30/stephen_shore_its_the_little_t/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Eric Levin Thu, 31 May 2007 05:29:29 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/05/30/stephen_shore_its_the_little_t/#comment-70 Great stuff, but don't forget Shore's debt to William Eggleston, who combines the frontal, understatedly epic manner of Evans with more mucking around in the quotidian mess than anyone short of a dumpster diver. Eggleston's pallette may have a wider emotional range than Shore's--his color can be macabre, lurid, ravishing, elegiac and other big words like those. Eggleston also conveys a sense of social class in the South worthy of Carson McCullers. Shore and Joel Sternfeld seem to go together in my mind. Maybe it's the view camera, which I've come to think of as almost cheating, probably because I can't afford one. Anyway, Eggleston works his magic hand-held. Sternfeld's American Prospects is another great book. But my favorite of his, I think, is Stranger Passing, which adds human beings to the quotidian and epic American parade. When people show up in Eggleston's and Sternfeld's pictures, their individuality has seemed to me more striking and keenly observed than the people in Shore's pictures. But it's been awhile since I've seen Shore, so I'm looking forward to catching the ICP show. Great stuff, but don't forget Shore's debt to William Eggleston, who combines the frontal, understatedly epic manner of Evans with more mucking around in the quotidian mess than anyone short of a dumpster diver.

Eggleston's pallette may have a wider emotional range than Shore's--his color can be macabre, lurid, ravishing, elegiac and other big words like those. Eggleston also conveys a sense of social class in the South worthy of Carson McCullers.

Shore and Joel Sternfeld seem to go together in my mind. Maybe it's the view camera, which I've come to think of as almost cheating, probably because I can't afford one. Anyway, Eggleston works his magic hand-held.

Sternfeld's American Prospects is another great book. But my favorite of his, I think, is Stranger Passing, which adds human beings to the quotidian and epic American parade. When people show up in Eggleston's and Sternfeld's pictures, their individuality has seemed to me more striking and keenly observed than the people in Shore's pictures. But it's been awhile since I've seen Shore, so I'm looking forward to catching the ICP show.

]]> By: Nicholas Forrest http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/05/30/stephen_shore_its_the_little_t/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Nicholas Forrest Thu, 31 May 2007 00:08:59 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2007/05/30/stephen_shore_its_the_little_t/#comment-69 There is nothing like a bit of nostalgia to evoke emotion and sentiment. I think that the lack of people in the photos gives the scenes a surreal, other worldly feel. <a href="http://www.artmarketblog.com" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.artmarketblog.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.artmarketblog.com</a></a> There is nothing like a bit of nostalgia to evoke emotion and sentiment. I think that the lack of people in the photos gives the scenes a surreal, other worldly feel.

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