Stephen Shore: Early Work

Join us for an event with world renowned photographer Stephen Shore, discussing his new monograph Early Work. Joining Stephen in conversation is the publisher and editor of Early Work, Michael Mack and Liv Constable-Maxwell. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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At the age of six, Stephen Shore received a Kodak Darkroom kit, a gift that unearthed a passion and inquisitiveness that would go on to define his entire life. Shore began to develop a unique relationship to the chemical alchemy of the darkroom and to the camera itself: a tool through which he would uncover the characters and complexities of the world around him.

Early Work collects for the first time the entirely unseen photographs created during Shore's early teenage years between 1960 and 1965, a period of rich experimentation that precedes his time working with Andy Warhol at The Factory. These sophisticated and ambitious images demonstrate Shore's already-complex understanding of the photographic form, and the particular attention with which he approached his surroundings. It offers a unique record of the vibrant energy of New York in the early 1960s, and reveals the themes that provided a constant source of interest for the young photographer.

Above all, Early Work offers an authoritative account of the innate sensibility with which Shore approached not only his craft but the world around him, from this early age.

Includes a foreword by Martin Scorsese and a new essay by Stephen Shore

Photo credit: Richard Renaldi

Stephen Shore’s work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty-five years. At age twenty-three, he was the first living photographer to have a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, forty years earlier. More than twenty-five books have been published of Stephen Shore’s photographs including Uncommon Places: The Complete Works (1982) and American Surfaces (1972); works which are now considered important milestones in photographic history. Shore is represented by 303 Gallery (New York) and Sprüth Magers (London and Berlin).

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States