STEPHEN SHORE (B. 1947), Yucatán, Mexico, 1990

STEPHEN SHORE (B. 1947)
Yucatán, Mexico, 1990
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.

Quentin Bajac, Stephen Shore, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017, p. 233.

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Yucatán, Mexico is a product of a later period in Shore’s career that is characterized by international travel. Shore has referred to himself in terms of being a sort of anthropologist, and his glimpses of the transforming culture of the Yucatán emblemize this conceit with elegant curiosity. The neat, purposeful repetition of the stacked oranges evokes the very serial essence of photography, each with their slight variances in color and composition.