STEPHEN SHORE (B. 1947)

An eloquent Joel Sternfeld breaks down this iconic image from Stephen Shore: "Stephen Shore's photograph of a summer morning settling in on Holden Street in North Adams, Massachusetts, appears to be a picture replete with dualities, the most obvious being that of town and countryside. The brick commercial buildings bookend a central panel of green hills and blue sky as if the entirety were an early Christian altarpiece. The most sacred panel, the centre one, contains an image of a deity, which in this secular case turns out to be a wooden building of pure white. The building stands in front of a mountain, a standard symbol of spiritual elevation." (Stephen Shore, Phaidon, 2008, p. 114)