Stephen shore

 Stephen shore

I decide to research Stephens work because he takes pictures of everyday landscapes that people are likely to see which is what I  intended to do in this project.

I’m showing this picture because I think I can learn from the way that it’s composed. The first thing I noticed is the curb on the right which leads your eye to the point of interest which is the red van which is positioned on the bottom right third. The flow between the sections of the picture is helped by the road and its angle, it leads from the foreground which it the wall/window on the right through to the middle ground which is the van (point of interest) and flats and finally into the background which it the green area. This natural flow subtly aids the viewer through the picture. I think one of the key factors to this picture’s success is the lifelessness of it as well as the emptiness of the street. Even though this is a great picture to learn from, I will be a hard picture to try and reproduce in the north east of England.      

^ This is my favourite landscape picture by Stephen because it combines traditional landscape with his minimalist style. When you look at the picture you can’t help but think the house is completely out of place. Stephen emphasises this by positioning the house in the centre of the frame on the same level of the top of the mountain so your eye flows along ridge of the mountain and the ridge of the house. Stephen also used the phone wire to link the sky to the ground which is especially important in this picture because of the colour difference.

I think it’s interesting that Stephen chooses to photograph the landscape this way because it’s almost in a documentary style which is obviously not what you would expect from his landscape photography. Despite this it’s refreshing to see the landscape depicted in an honest way which will be the style that I adopt when I start taking my photographs.