Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore

on photography vs instagram
photographer, New York

interview by ALEXIS DAHAN
portrait by BAPTISTE GIROUDON

All images copyright Stephen Shore and courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York

 

ALEXIS DAHAN — You started photography about 50 years ago, when you had to know about both chemistry and physics to be a photographer. Today, pretty much everybody can take a photograph with their phone. Do you think the evolution of technology has improved the nature of photography?
STEPHEN SHORE — Well, first of all, photography always had a technological aspect to it. And while its technology has changed over the past 150 years, the medium has changed with it. The invention of a new camera or faster film changes what an artist can do. For example, when cameras became miniaturized in the early 20th century, a different kind of photography could be made; when high-speed…