{"id":118595,"date":"2025-09-04T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118595\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:04:08","slug":"stephen-shores-photos-reveal-glamor-and-nostalgia-of-1960s-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118595\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Shore\u2019s Photos Reveal Glamor and Nostalgia of 1960s New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Three<\/a>Stephen Shore, from Early Work (MACK, 2025). Courtesy of the artist and MACK. <\/p>\n

Stephen Shore is most famous for his instantly recognizable photos of Andy Warhol and his superstars at the Factory in New York, but before that he was a literal child wandering the streets with a camera. <\/p>\n

A new book explores how Shore took his camera on the streets of New York from the ages of 13 to 17, capturing the romance and charm of the bustling Big Apple between 1960 and 1965. <\/p>\n

Armed with a Leica and rolls of black and white film, Shore picked out distinctive faces from the crowd that look as if they belong in West Side Story.<\/p>\n

At the age of six, Shore received a Kodak Darkroom kit, a gift that unearthed a passion and inquisitiveness that would go on to define his entire life. Shore began to develop a unique relationship with the chemical alchemy of the darkroom and to the camera itself: a tool through which he would uncover the characters and complexities of the world around him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t remember what was on my mind then,\u201d the now 77-year-old Shore told The Guardian<\/a> in a recent interview about his early work. \u201cBut what I see looking at them now is a kind of formal awareness, which I guess I understood intuitively.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Stephen Shore, from Early Work (MACK, 2025). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.
\n \"A<\/a>Stephen Shore, from Early Work (MACK, 2025). Courtesy of the artist and MACK. <\/p>\n

Shore says he doesn\u2019t recall taking the photos but does remember developing them in a homemade darkroom at his parents\u2019 apartment on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side. <\/p>\n

\u201cI understood from the beginning that a camera doesn\u2019t point, it frames. I also understood the gap between the world of the photograph and the world we experience \u2013 the world of the photograph has to make sense on its own, out of context.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/a>Stephen Shore, from Early Work (MACK, 2025). Courtesy of the artist and MACK. \"An<\/a>Stephen Shore, from Early Work (MACK, 2025). Courtesy of the artist and MACK \"A<\/a>Stephen Shore, from Early Work (MACK, 2025). Courtesy of the artist and MACK. <\/p>\n

Shore\u2019s passion for photography led him to call up the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) which purchased three prints from him and he ultimately became the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition there. <\/p>\n

Shore wound up at the Factory, where he spent three years capturing the likes of Edie Sedgwick and The Velvet Underground. <\/p>\n

Stephen Shore: Early Work was released on September 1 by MACK.<\/a><\/p>\n

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