Stephen Shore 'œhas always been precocious,' said Linda Yablonsky in Bloomberg.com. He was just 14 when the Museum of Modern Art began buying his photographs.
By 23 the Metropolitan Museum of Art had granted him a solo show. But Shore, now 60, has shown a remarkable consistency of vision over his nearly 50'“year career. He 'œregularly transforms bland or squalid subjects'”toilets, signage, traffic'”into captivating still lifes, feats of perceptual legerdemain,' and few other artists in any form better captured the unique look and feel of American life in the 1970s. The new exhibition at New York's International Center of Photography brings together 160 prints from Shore's most productive decade. Scenes of people in swimming pools and such anonymous locations as diners and hotel rooms proliferate.
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