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Artist Emulation (stephen shore)

Stephen is known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects, and for his use of color in photography. By the 1970s only serious art photographers saw the world in black and white. For those able to shake off the convention working in color proved revelatory. By using color in his photos, Stephen generally made it accepted as an art form in photography. Shore took pictures of things you would see every day and that aren't necesarily appealing to the eye-landspaces, intersections, gas stations. Shore had his first major solo exhibit at the age of 24, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His Uncommon Places was a bible for the new color photographers because, alongside William Eggleston, his work proved that a color photograph, like a painting or even a black and white photograph, could be considered a work of art.