#uncommonplaces

[buidtih]

common things in uncommon places #3 • • • #subiaco #commonthings #uncommonplaces #onfilm #35mm #rolleirpx400

[theshoreproject]

U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon

Left: Shore’s shot from July 21, 1973

Right: My shot from January 14, 2017

Back from vacation for a while and back to editing (which I am still very behind on from the summer). We are in for a big snow storm here in New England, so I am hoping to get lots done over the next couple of days! 

This location was the one I was most looking forward to. It has always been one of my favorite Shore photographs and I knew it was sure to be a gamble with that amazing billboard. Sure enough, it was gone. We were there in January with a few inches of snow covering the ground...remnants of that billboards could have been hiding underneath, but it is highly doubtful. Due to the disappearing billboard, it made this shot a little bit harder to find, but we did it! We drove back and forth a couple of times on US 97...knowing very well that Shore was traveling South, and looked North into his rear view mirror to find this scene. With Brian driving South, I hopped in the back seat and eagerly scanned the landscape out of the back window. I first used the size of the mountains to get an accurate distance. I knew there were some buildings in the background of Shore’s photographs so we searched for those (see image above) and found them...we then knew we were in the right spot! Lastly, we looked for a gate, never expecting to find it...but there it was with snow and tall winter grass all around it. Klamath Falls = success!

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[hannahmatthewswestminster]

Uncommon Places

stephen shore

I wanted to further look into and gain inspiration from the work of Stephen Shore, so I purchased his book ‘Uncommon Places’ to see all his prints away from a screen, with the collection of all his works in one place. They are even more articulate in person, so it was difficult to pick out favourites for this blog. Having already explored his work, I wanted to look into it in a lot more depth.

He travelled around America and documented what he was seeing at that particular moment in his life. He did this on a 35mm Rollei. Not only does the book contain photographs of crossroads, houses, shops or everyday street scenes, within, he also captured his hotel rooms, his lunch and even portraiture. Its almost as if you have travelled through America with him throughout this book, gaining an insight of what it would be like to road trip yourself. Shore’s photographs have a strong sense of depth and structure, with stunningly framed compositions. His use of light and shadows, particularly in the image above are inspirational as they almost add a frame within the frame of the photograph, to swiftly draw your attention to the subjects.

As I have mentioned before, Shore’s images inspire me to look at everyday life through a lens, slow down and to notice what surrounds me. I have always thought of architecture to not have the same beauty as nature, mountains and countryside. However, he has shown me that you have to look at these everyday street scenes from a different perspective, as everything has beauty within it, you just have to be open enough to see it. Walking through the streets I have challenged myself to notice. I aim to base my project on noticing, the small minute details of the urban street scenes that go unnoticed and unappreciated.

“Taken as a whole, the images provide a thorough map of what amounts to a lifetime of movements in space and time.” - Stephen Schmidt-Wulffen

Stephen Shore in conversation with Lynne Tillman

“Back then you made an ordinary display... about the importance, the fascination and the beauty of ordinariness”

“Another thing on my mind at that time was the use of photographs to do exactly that: show the multiplicity of images that surround us” - Stephen Shore

[lucaro51]

Otras veces despierto en lugares extraños. Extrañamente familiares. Un personaje del laberinto me dijo alguna vez que en sus sueños cruzaba puertas, puerta tras puerta tras puerta y cada entrada era (es) un portal. Las casas y la mente resultan ser muy parecidas: entras en ellas y cada una es un Multiverso lleno de historias sin tiempo. . . . . . . #buga #colombia #uncommonplaces #portales #multiverso #timeless #elcamino #highcontrast #laberinto #camaraenmano #dream #sientateyobserva (en Buga, Valle del Cauca) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoL9L5cjjHk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1s19qjmoljquj

[buidtih]

common things in uncommon places #2 • • • #subiaco #commonthings #uncommonplaces #onfilm #35mm #rolleirpx400

[buidtih]

common things in uncommon places #1 • Inspired by a recent art exhibition I visited • • • #subiaco #uncommonplaces #onfilm #35mm #rolleirpx400

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