Stephen Shore Quotes:
Ocupation: Photographer
Life: b. October 8, 1947
Birthday: October 8
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.
source: Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd
topic: Photography, Art, Creativity, Artifacts, Vantage Point, Messiness, Blank Canvas
