Stephen Shore
- Sean O'Hagan on photographyShady character: how Stephen Shore taught America to see in living colourIn the 70s, everyone hated Shore’s quirky photographs of everyday life because they weren’t in black and white. Now, a new retrospective shows how he became a modern master – and how the masses finally caught up with him
The beauty of the disregarded
When Robert Frank first published his photographs of workaday America in the 50s, they were derided as too hopeless, too bleak. By the 70s, when Stephen Shore was at work, realism was finding its way into the gallery. Our way of looking had changed. Suzie Mackenzie on an exhibition of documentary photography