M 1/2 Ave. Galveston, Texas
Stephen Shore, M 1/2 Ave. Galveston, Texas, 1975, chromogenic print, Gift of Sandra Phillips in honor of Terry Toedtemeier, © unknown, research required, 2012.134.2
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- Title
M 1/2 Ave. Galveston, Texas
- Artist
- Date
1975
- Medium
chromogenic print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 7 11/16 in x 9 11/16 in; sheet: 8 in x 10 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: "STEPHEN SHORE", black ink, verso, BR
title/place: "GALVESTON, TEXAS 1975", black ink, verso, BL
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Sandra Phillips in honor of Terry Toedtemeier
- Accession Number
2012.134.2
- Copyright
© unknown, research required
- Terms
Stephen Shore was the only photographer in the New Topographics exhibition to show color prints. He began a series of road trips through the United States in 1972, favoring color film over black-and-white for his views of small-town vernacular architecture. He eventually switched to an 8 x 10 camera, which curtailed the spontaneity possible with smaller cameras, but lent a systematic and objective quality to his compositions. Though earlier photographers had experimented with color, Shore's insistence on using it exclusively changed the emerging fine art photography market, which until the 1970s largely rejected color in favor of black-and-white imagery.
- Exhibitions
2013 Ordinary World: American Landscape Photography and Modern Documentary Style Portland Art Museum