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Join Stephen Shore & 25+ other artists on Saturday May 21st in New York as Mack takes over Rizzoli Bookstore for a very special celebration. It’s been a while since everyone has been able to gather together, so Mack wanted to make this a big one! Come to meet Mack’s incredible array of authors, browse their new titles, buy signed copies, and raise a glass with us.


Saturday May 21st
4:00 – 8:00 pm

Rizzoli
1133 Broadway 
New York, NY
10010

Register for free here.


Public Program


Stephen Shore in Conversation with David Campany

Stephen Shore and ICP Curator at Large David Campany discuss Shore’s new memoir, Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography, an impressionistic scrapbook that documents the rich and surprising touchstones that make up over half a century of Shore’s ground-breaking work.  


APRIL 13, 2022
6pm-7pm


Click here for more information:
www.icp.org


About Stephen Shore’s Modern Instances

“Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.” Giorgio de Chirico

Stephen Shore’s Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography is an experimental new memoir from one of the world’s most prolific artists ― an impressionistic scrapbook that documents the rich and surprising touchstones that make up over half a century of ground-breaking work. With essays, photographs, stories, and excerpts that draw on Shore’s decades of teaching, this is an essential handbook for anyone interested in learning more about mastering one’s craft and the distinct threads that come together to inform a creative voice. As much as offering meditation on the influences of a single artist, Modern Instances proposes a new way of thinking about the world around us, in which even the smallest moment can become a source of boundless inspiration ― if only we pay attention.

Reserve a copy of Stephen Shore Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography (MACK $45) through ICP’s shop


About the Program Format

This program will take place on Zoom.
Those who register to attend will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link.

Click here to Register for this event:
ICP: Book Event: Stephen Shore


MACK LIVE


Stephen Shore in conversation with George Miles

Kingman, Arizona, July 2, 1975
© Stephen Shore, courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York.

To celebrate the launch of Stephen Shore’s experimental new memoir Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography, we are joined by Stephen Shore and George Miles to discuss, among other things, the making of this dazzling new book, how to master one’s craft, Shakespeare, baseball, and what it means to really pay attention.


Monday 21 March
18:00 GMT, London
(UK screening)
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Tuesday 22 March
18:00 CET, Paris
(Europe screening with French subtitles)
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Wednesday 23 March
18:00 JST, Tokyo
20:00 AEDT, Melbourne
14:30 IST, New Delhi
(Asia and Oceania screening with Japanese subtitles)
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Thursday 24 March 
18:00 EDT, New York
15:00 PDT, Los Angeles
(USA screening)
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About Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography

Stephen Shore’s Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography is an experimental new memoir from one of the world’s most innovative and influential artists – an impressionistic scrapbook documenting the rich and surprising touchstones which have shaped over half a century of ground-breaking work. Bringing together essays, insights, artworks, and encounters, with references ranging from garden design to baseball and nineteenth-century novels to Instagram filters, this is an essential handbook for anyone interested in mastering their craft and learning about the distinct threads that come together to inform a creative voice. Modern Instances proposes a new way of thinking about the world around us, in which the smallest moment can become a source of boundless inspiration, if only we pay attention.

Find out more and order copies here.

FELLOWSHIP

NFT AUCTION:


Stephen Shore
Relief for Ukraine

Room 509, Dnipro Hotel, Kiev, Kyivska Province, Ukraine, July 18, 2012.
© Stephen Shore, courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York.


Auction date:
March 17th 2022

Room 509, Dnipro Hotel, Kiev, Kyivska Province, Ukraine, July 18, 2012
1/1 NFT


Fellowship is honored to be working with photographic legend Stephen Shore on the release of “Room 509, Dnipro Hotel, Kiev, Kyivska Province, Ukraine, July 18, 2012” as a 1/1 NFT to benefit the United Nations Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.

The piece is from Shore’s 2015 photo book, Survivors in Ukraine, a project which perfectly encapsulates the stylistic range of Shore’s prolific career. In Survivors in Ukraine, Shore explores the quotidian lives of holocaust survivors living in Ukraine, the country his grandfather left before emigrating to the United States. The project serves as an important cultural document about the resilience of past Ukrainian generations, and the release of this NFT is in support of the current generation of citizens who once again are facing dangerous upheavals of their lives and livelihoods.
Stephen Shore is committing 100% of primary and secondary net sale proceeds of this NFT to the United Nations Ukraine Humanitarian Fund, which is distributed amid a wide range of front-line partner organizations.

To view the NFT please visit the following link:
https://foundation.app/@fellowship137/stephenshoreru/2

SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE





UPDATE:

I am thrilled to inform my community of friends, colleagues, and supporters that since Saturday, 303 Gallery has raised $300,000 for Ukrainian relief through the sale of my prints.

I am eternally grateful to everyone who has helped support this important cause.

303 Gallery

Stephen Shore

Survivors in Ukraine

On view from
March 5th 2022

Room 509, Dnipro Hotel, Kiev, Kyivska Province, Ukraine, July 18, 2012, 2012 (printed 2013), Chromogenic color print © Stephen Shore, courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York.


303 Gallery is proud to present an exhibition by Stephen Shore,
of photographs from the artist’s series:

Survivors in Ukraine.

In support of Ukraine and in response to the recent humanitarian crisis, the gallery will be donating 100% of the proceeds from this presentation to the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, Inc. and their Humanitarian Aid Fund for Victims of War in Ukraine. For more information, and to make a donation, please visit: www.uuarc.org.


This body of work was shot in Ukraine in 2012 and 2013, in and around the homes and villages of Holocaust survivors. Shore was introduced to his subjects through the Survivor Mitzvah Project, which helps aging Holocaust survivors living in Eastern Europe and the former USSR.

With each image, the viewer is confronted with echoes of Ukraine’s past and present as the nation faces Russian invasion, and once again, the tragedy of displacement. Shore’s colorful, melancholic still lifes and sweeping rural and urban landscapes – alongside his warm and honest portraits – create an arresting body of work that captures the lingering effects of war on the landscape and its people.    


For more information on the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, Inc.
and to make a donation, please visit:
www.uuarc.org.

For more information on Stephen Shore, please contact: Cristian Alexa,
cristian@303gallery.com.

For all press inquiries, please contact Sarah St. Amand,
sarah@303gallery.com.

Survivors in Ukraine was first published in 2015 by Phaidon

MACK

LAUNCH DATE FEBRUARY 2022

PLEASE NOTE:
Any orders containing this title will not ship until February 2022.

For more information or to pre-order:
www.mackbooks.co.uk


MACK

“Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.” -Giorgio de Chirico

Stephen Shore’s ‘Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography’ is an experimental new memoir from one of the world’s most prolific artists – an impressionistic scrapbook documenting the rich and surprising touchstones that make up over half a century of groundbreaking work. With essays, photographs, stories and excerpts that draw on Shore’s decades of teaching, this is an essential handbook for anyone interested in learning more about mastering one’s craft and the distinct threads that come together to inform a creative voice. As much as offering a meditation on the influences of a single artist, ‘Modern Instances’ proposes a new way of thinking about the world around us, in which even the smallest moment can become a source of boundless inspiration – if only we pay attention.

PLEASE NOTE: Any orders containing this title will not ship until February 2022.

For more information or to pre-order:
www.mackbooks.co.uk




Mack Books


SCREENINGS:

Monday 14 June:
UK Screening, 18:00 BST London.
In partnership with Village Books (London), The Photographers’ Gallery Bookshop (London)


Tuesday 15 June:
Europe Screening (French subtitles), 18:00 CEST Paris
In partnership with Micamera (Milan),  Dispara (Pontevedra),  Fragment (Copenhagen),  Tronsmo (Oslo),  Artazart (Paris),  0fr (Paris),  La Nouvelle Chambre Claire (Paris),  L’Ascenseur Végétal (Bordeaux),  Le Plac’Art Photo (Paris), Picto La Comète (Paris), La librairie Quai des Brumes (Strasbourg),  Librairie Sans Titre (Paris),  Le Révélateur Phocéen (Marseille),  Kominek (Berlin)


Thursday 17 June:
USA Screening, 18:00 EDT New York / 15:00 PDT Los Angeles.
In partnership with Arcana Books (Culver City, CA)



FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT:
www.mackbooks.co.uk

Blind Magazine



Image from Steel Town (MACK, 2021) © Stephen Shore, Courtesy the artist and MACK.


“Photography Isn’t Very Good at Explaining”


MAY 2021
by Brigitte Ollier & Jonas Cuénin

Steel Town by Stephen Shore has just been released by MACK. The book is infused with a sense of austerity, as well as a kind of sadness the source of which is hard to pinpoint. Shore’s color photographs seem both strange and familiar, a bit like a long-forgotten tune. The American photographer does not try to hide the reality; on the contrary, that’s why he’s there. Reality is what motivates this photo story first published in 1977 in Fortune Magazine under the title “Hard Times Come to Steeltown.” Aged 30 at the time, Stephen Shore (b. October 8, 1947), now the author of over 40 books, admits that this was the “the most extensive [editorial commission] I had done for a magazine to that date.” 


To read the full article visit:
www.blind-magazine.com