Stephen Shore

U.S. 10, Post Falls, Idaho

Maker

Stephen Shore (American, b. 1947)

Title

U.S. 10, Post Falls, Idaho

Year

1974

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

Ektacolor photograph

Dimensions

40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, dated and inscribed in pen on verso, bottom: U.S.10, Post Falls, Idaho 8/25/74

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum purchase with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts

Object Number

79.089

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

America in View
Landscape Photography 1865 to Now
Sep 21, 2012 – Jan 13, 2013

Label copy

Stephen Shore crossed the country with his large-format view camera, capturing banal settings with acidic colors betraying a Pop sensibility left over from his youth working in Andy Warhol’s famed Factory. His use of color was revolutionary at a time when color photography was primarily associated with advertising or the snapshot. U.S. 10, Post Falls, Idaho playfully comments on the landscape tradition. The waterfall on the fluorescent sign and the crates and bags of produce in the foreground allude to depictions of the landscape as either sublime or bountiful. In Shores’s photograph, however, nature exists as a commodity or a kitschy roadside attraction.

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Stephen Shore (American, b. 1947)
U.S. 10, Post Falls, Idaho, 1974
Color chromogenic print
40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 inches)
Museum purchase with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts 79.089

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