Stephen Shore

Christie’s, New York, 14 February 2006, Sale 1625, Lot 125

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Here., May 2011 – January 2012

Stephen Shore: Fotografien 1973 bis 1993 (Münster: Westfälischer Kunstverein, 1994), p. 64

Quentin Bajac, Stephen Shore (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2017), p. 50

Quentin Bajac, Stephen Shore: Solving Pictures (London, 2017), p. 50

Spoken with the enthusiasm of a baseball coach, Stephen Shore makes an analogy between his favorite sport and his photography style: “It’s like if you were a baseball player and you’re playing the outfield. Someone hits a fly ball, you can’t think about the trajectory of the ball and how fast you have to run to be able to intersect with it and catch it. At some point your muscles have developed a kind of memory […]. It comes naturally, after years of experimenting” (Stephen Shore, p. 50). Shore is an avid fan of the New York Yankees, and in 1978, AT&T asked him to photograph the team. Straying away from traditional sports photography, Shore preferred images that were taken far away so that the team members appeared nearly anonymous. Fort Lauderdale Yankees Stadium achieves exactly that, focusing on the colorful and unexpected landscape with a nearby airplane hangar as well as the geometries of the baseball field, rather than the players themselves.