detuschluba

This book got me off my Eggleston stance (somewhat) and his work feels a lot 'wider' with a some overlap of content/subject with Eggleston - not freakishly surprising. The cityscapes he captured reminded me of the story about R. Crumb going around a city with a photographer so he could capture what it all looked like - all the curved wires etc. - only Shore shares his eye on what is lovely and now, mostly gone, naturally or humanly. Images stick out in my mind and his use of color as he captures spare motel rooms with tiny tv's and half-eaten meals at McDonald's reminds me of paintings from centuries ago with pheasant meals on shiny silver trays and palaces of shiny tiled floors - here's where we are right now Shore seems to say and we aren't there anymore nor were we there for long.

2022-11-14 16:11