Photographs 
1 December 2023
Photographs 
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Stephen Shore b.1947

Amarillo, Texas, July, 1972

1972 / printed 2014
C-print image: 5 h × 7½ w in (13 × 19 cm) sheet: 8 h × 10 w in (20 × 25 cm)
estimate: $8,000–10,000
result: $10,710
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Signed, titled, dated and numbered to verso ‘Amarillo, Texas, July, 1972 9/10 Stephen Shore ’. This work is number 9 from the edition of 10.
provenance: 303 Gallery, New York | Rose Gallery, Santa Monica | Private Collection
literature: Stephen Shore: American Surfaces, Shore, pg. 99

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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With a painting, you’re taking basic building blocks and making something that’s more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.

Stephen Shore

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