Graig Nettles, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 1, 1978

Name: STEPHEN SHORE (B. 1947)
Brand: Graig Nettles, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 1, 1978
Price: 7000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 8,750

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STEPHEN SHORE (B. 1947)

Graig Nettles, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 1, 1978

Price Realised USD 8,750

STEPHEN SHORE (B. 1947)
Graig Nettles, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 1, 1978
chromogenic contact print
signed, titled and dated in ink (verso)
image: 8 x 10 in. (20 x 25.5 cm.)
sheet: 10 x 12 in. (25.5 x 30.5 cm.)

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner.

Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places, Aperture, New York, 1982, p. 55.
Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places, Aperture, New York, 2004, p. 158.
Christy Lange, Michael Fried, Joel Sternfeld, Stephen Shore, Phaidon Press Limited, New York, 2007, p. 98.

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Lot Essay

Despite his lifelong fervor for both baseball and the Yankees, when Shore photographed the team during their spring training in Fort Lauderdale, he did not allow his own fandom to muddle his impartial gaze. Graig Nettles, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 1, 1978 depicts the famed third basemen without the dramatic heroism often imposed upon sports photography. Instead Nettles is fixed and centered in the batting cage in such a way that presents him as a statuesque form framed by a geometric composition of overlapping rectangular nets and posts on an extended proscenium of dirt.