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STEPHEN SHORE (B. 1947)
Marland Street, Hobbs, New Mexico, February 19, 1975
chromogenic print
signed, titled and dated in ink (verso)
image: 12 x 15 in. (30.5 x 38 cm.)
sheet: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)

Provenance
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places, Aperture, New York, 2004, p. 109.
Quentin Bajac, Stephen Shore, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017, p. 235.
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Lot Essay

Marland Street, Hobbs, New Mexico, February 19, 1975, highlights a central motif of the car culture recorded by Shore: the sign. 'Shore’s photographs, particularly those from the 1970s are as much to be read as to be looked at,' Quentin Bajac, Chief Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, states in reference to the prevalence of signage in Uncommon Places (Stephen Shore, p. 210). Designed to be brief and eye catching, the signs of Shore’s landscapes occur as ostentatious flashes of aesthetic activity within otherwise restrained configurations.

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