Stephen Shore
'Yosemite National Park, CA' (Merced River)
Auction Closed
May 2, 05:08 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Stephen Shore
B. 1947
'Yosemite National Park, CA' (Merced River)
chromogenic print, signed, titled, and dated in ink on the reverse, framed, 1979
image: 12 by 15⅛ in. (30.5 by 38.4 cm.)
frame: 21¼ by 23¾ in. (54 by 60.3 cm.)
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2008
Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places, The Complete Works (New York, 2004), p. 169
Christy Lange, Michael Fried, and Joel Sternfeld, eds., Stephen Shore (London, 2007), p. 111
Quentin Bajac, Stephen Shore (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2017), p. 153
'Casting shadows like sundials, each person in the scene appears suspended in time, but this is not simply the effect of Shore's shutter. The human figures achieve – accidentally and momentarily – an unlikely pictorial ideal, and formal perfection always evokes a suspension of time.'
– David Campany
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