Stephen Shore was one of the early colour photography pioneers back in the Seventies, along with the likes of William Eggleston and Joel Meyerowitz, at a time when serious photography was supposed to be black-and-white. He toured the country capturing ordinary American scenes in straightforward unglamorised images.
A Shore retrospective has just opened at New York's MOMA.
These are mostly from his mid-1970s work Uncommon Places.
Room 125, Westbank Motel, Idaho Falls, Idaho, July 18, 1973
West 9th Avenue, Amarillo, Texas, October 2, 1974
2nd Street, Ashland, Wisconsin, July 9, 1973,
U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 21, 1973
Sha-Mar Beauty Salon, Chestnut Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1973
West Fifteenth Street and Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 15, 1974
Natural Bridge, New York, July 31, 1974
Holden Street, North Adams, Massachusetts, July 13, 1974
Broad Street, Regina, Saskatchewan, August 17, 1974
Fifth Street and Broadway, Eureka, California, September 2, 1974
Thirty-First Avenue and Crescent Street, Queens, New York, October 28, 1974
Presidio, Texas, February 21, 1975
Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975
West Market Street and North Eugene Street, Greensboro, North Carolina, January 23, 1976
[Photos © Stephen Shore]
I wonder if the restaurant is still called "Sambo's". In California, probably not.
Posted by: Rob | November 25, 2017 at 11:48 PM
Sambo's was a chain that by the late 1970s had over 1,000 locations all across the US. The corporate parent itself filed for bankruptcy in 1981, though many of its original restaurants kept running, and just changed hands / names to similar chains like Denny's.
Posted by: Jason | November 26, 2017 at 05:26 AM