Your chance to meet Stephen Shore

The legendary photographer and creator of From Galilee to the Negev hits the West Coast later this month

Stephen Shore is heading out on the road this month on a series of west coast dates. The legendary photographer, whose latest book From Galilee to the Negev is published by Phaidon in May will be talking about his life and work and siging copies of his Phaidon books.

The dates kick off at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on April 23 where Stephen will be in conversation with Sandra Phillips, Curator of Photography at SFMOMA. Stephen will be signing books after the talk which begins at 7pm. Tickets are available here; and if join Phaidon Club, you can get 25% off the ticket price.

The following evening (April 24) there’s a book reception and signing at 7pm at Hennessey & Ingalls, 1520 N. Cahuenga Boulevard; Los Angeles. It’s free and open to all and you can find more details here.

Jerusalem - Stephen Shore From Galilee to the Negev

Then, on Friday, April 25, Stephen attends Paris Photo LA at Paramount Pictures Studios, 5555 Melrose Avenue; Los Angeles. At 2pm he’ll be in conversation with fellow photographer Taryn Simon and curator and writer Douglas Fogle, followed by a question and answer session at the Sherry Lansing Theater. Later that afternoon, at 4pm, Stephen will be signing books at the 303 Gallery booth, Stage 31, Stand 2 at the fair.

If you can’t make the West Coast events but would like to know more about Stephen and his work you can browse our related online Stephen Shore content here and learn more about his books, including collectors' editions and the print on demand Book of Books in the online store here.

From Galilee to the NegevStephen Shore

Price AUD$120.00 Price CAD$100.00 Price £75.00 Price T100.00 Price USD$100.00

Stephen Shore is a pioneering photographer and influential teacher. From Galilee to the Negev is an intimate portrait of a multi-faceted place, exploring the landscape of Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank; its complexities and its contradictions. Shore travelled the length and breadth of the region, questioning and revealing through his camera lens. His visual inquiry explores the landscape itself and the people who live in it – the daily lives and the narratives that combine to create this fascinating place – at once beautiful and ugly, safe and hostile. A selection of texts by a diverse range of writers – who have each selected one photograph as a spring board – will be interspersed amongst the photographs, offering a gathering of voices and perspectives.
Specifications:

Format: Hardback
Size: 338 × 291 mm (13 3/8 × 11 1/2 in)
Pages: 224 pp
Illustrations: 273 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714867069

By the age of 14, three of Stephen Shore's photographs were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As a teenager he spent time in Andy Warhol’s Factory photographing the artist and his entourage. In 1971 Shore became the first living photographer to have a one-person show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His photographs have since been included in numerous shows, including the ‘American Surfaces’exhibition (Cologne and Frankfurt, 1999) and the Tate Modern’s successful 2003 ‘Cruel and Tender’exhibition. Shore is a pioneering and highly influential photographer; he is also an important teacher and is Director of the Photography Program at Bard College, New York.

"Shore’s photographs in From Galilee to the Negev have all the hallmarks that have come to be associated with his images: the arresting formal structure, the deadpan humor, the cogent capturing of seemingly unremarkable visual details that our eyes usually pan over in everyday life. The book is a thoughtful and unexpected portrait of an area often approached only through its most obvious dichotomies."—Los Angeles Review of Books