Title: Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography
Artist: Stephen Shore
MACK Books, 2022
Design by Morgan Crowcroft-Brown
Silkscreen printed linen hardcover
170 x 245 mm
224 pages
Texts by Alex Bacon & Felix Bazalgette
English
ISBN: 9781913620530
Stephen Shore’s “Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography” is an experimental new memoir from one of the world’s most prolific artists — an impressionistic scrapbook that documents the rich and surprising touchstones that make up over half a century of ground-breaking work. With essays, photographs, stories, and excerpts that draw on Shore’s decades of teaching, this is an essential handbook for anyone interested in learning more about mastering one’s craft and the distinct threads that come together to inform a creative voice. As much as offering meditation on the influences of a single artist, “Modern Instances” proposes a new way of thinking about the world around us, in which even the smallest moment can become a source of boundless inspiration — if only we pay attention.
- From the publisher’s website
Stephen Shore’s “Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography” is an experimental new memoir from one of the world’s most prolific artists — an impressionistic scrapbook that documents the rich and surprising touchstones that make up over half a century of ground-breaking work. With essays, photographs, stories, and excerpts that draw on Shore’s decades of teaching, this is an essential handbook for anyone interested in learning more about mastering one’s craft and the distinct threads that come together to inform a creative voice. As much as offering meditation on the influences of a single artist, “Modern Instances” proposes a new way of thinking about the world around us, in which even the smallest moment can become a source of boundless inspiration — if only we pay attention.
- From the publisher’s website
