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Customers praise the photography in this book, noting that each picture speaks for itself. They appreciate the author’s writing, with one customer highlighting the background essay on Stephen Shore.
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Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore’s legendary “Uncommon Places” has influenced more than a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, and his large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape inaugurated a vital photographic tradition. “Uncommon Places: The Complete Works,” published by Aperture in 2005, presented a definitive collection of the landmark series, and in the span of a decade has become a contemporary classic. Now, for this lushly produced reissue, the artist has added nearly 20 rediscovered images and a statement explaining what it means to expand a classic series. Like Robert Frank and Walker Evans before him, Shore discovered a hitherto unarticulated vision of America via highway and camera. Approaching his subjects with cool objectivity, Shore retains precise systems of gestures in composition and light through which a hotel bedroom or a building on a side street assumes both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal importance. An essay by critic and curator Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen and a conversation with Shore by writer Lynne Tillman examine his methodology and elucidate his roots in Pop and Conceptual art. The texts are illustrated with reproductions from Shore’s earlier series “American Surfaces” and “Amarillo: Tall in Texas.”
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: H. Kennedy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A book you’ll not only buy, but go back to.
Review: I shamefacedly admit that I buy a lot of photography books that do little more after a flip-through than sit on my shelves collecting dust. Along with Dorothea Tanning, Hendrik Kerstends, Jeff Brouws, and of course Henri Cartier-Bresson, Stephen Shore is one of very few that I continue to pick up and pore over, and Uncommon Places is replete with marvelous, data-rich photographs of mid/late 20th century America that will stick in your head. Highly recommended.
Reviewer: blade
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: pretty good
Review: like it
Reviewer: Clutch
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful assortment of terrific photos by one of the best Stephen Shore
Review: Helps me understanding composition colors and framing a photograph.
Reviewer: Bart Casper
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent print on fine paper
Review: High quality book. Excellent print on fine paper. Background essay on Stephen Shore also very helpful to put the work into context.
Reviewer: jamie battersby
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent.
Review: Phenomenal book, cannot recommend it enough. The pallete, the compositions, the atmosphere, the clean execution, it’s as close to perfect for me as it gets. I wish I could rate it more than 5 stars. Mr. Shore, you have a big fan in me, thank you for your stunning work.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Classic work, great print quality, issues with binding.
Review: The quality of this work speaks for itself. Every aspiring photographer should own a copy of this book. The prints are more vivid than older, faded versions and apparently reflect Mr. Shore’s original vision and color palette.However, I regrettably have to echo a complaint voiced by other reviewers – the binding quality is poor, and the book seemed to be coming apart immediately after opening it. This is a bit of a drag, since I own several other Aperture books and they’ve all been excellent in quality. Perhaps amazon got a subpar batch? It won’t detract from my enjoyment of the book, but it does bear mentioning.
Reviewer: Deonne Kahler
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Gorgeous Record of (Un)Common Places
Review: If you’re interested in the U.S. landscape that exists outside iconic places like New York or San Francisco, put this book on your list. Shore is a brilliant chronicler of the mundane and (sometimes) beautiful, and a genius with line and composition. Highly recommended.
Reviewer: JIJIM
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just pure beauty.
Review: Who doesn’t love Stephen Shore. He is a legend.
Reviewer: L. D. S.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Mi sono avvicinato a quest’opera sotto la “spinta” dell’insegnante di un corso di fotografia. Non conoscevo Shore ed il suo stile inizialmente mi rendeva un po’ perplesso. Devo dire di essere stato piacevolmente sorpreso. Al di là della maestria tecnica, che è eccezionale, la capacità di rappresentare e raccontare l’America di quegli anni, al di fuori delle grandi città dell’East e West Coast è incredibile. Il dettaglio dell’immagine è un piacere per l’occhio che può quasi “entrare” ed esplorare i luoghi fotografati. Questo grazie anche all’eccellente edizione di Aperture. Le dimensioni del volume, la carta e la stampa sono più che adeguate per rendere giustizia all’opera di Shore.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A beautiful book ,the receiver was well pleased!!
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book is one of the most important books in the history of American fine art photography. Completes theWalker Evans and Robert Frank books on America
Reviewer: Lioh Moeller
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: It is just not looking so nice where he has taken the pictures. The style of photography makes them even more dull and depressing, but maybe that’s exactly the point, and I am just not getting it. Don’t buy unless you really need it. Spend your money on beautiful things instead, make your life more colorful, not more depressive.
Reviewer: Gianmaria D’Arcangelo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Impeccable
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