April 8th/ Artist Talk: Stephen Shore / Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College

Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past thirty-five years. Shore (b. 1947, New York, NY) was the second living photographer to have a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His exhibitions at Light Gallery, New York during the 1970s sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work. Books of his photographs include Stephen Shore: Photographs 1973 - 1993; The Velvet Years, Andy Warhol's Factory, 1965 – 1967; Uncommon Places: The Complete Works; The Nature of Photographs; American Surfaces; and A Road Trip Journal. Shore is represented by 303 Gallery, New York; and Sprüth Magers, Berlin and London. Since 1982 he has been the director of the Photography Program at Bard College, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.