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'Ordinary Speech: The Vernacular in Stephen Shore's Early 35mm photography' by Britt Salvesen

'Ordinary Speech: The Vernacular in Stephen Shore's Early 35mm photography' by Britt Salvesen

To invoke the initial premise of making photographs that were like how people talked, if a snapshot captured a comment or quick remark, a larger format could contain the detail and nuance of a conversation. ‘I really was going to do American Surfaces with a larger format’, Shore recalls. ‘And then, I found that the larger format led me to discover other things about photographic seeing that I wanted to explore.'

'Ordinary Speech: The Vernacular in Stephen Shore's Early 35mm photography' by Britt Salvesen

'In Praise of the Photobook' by Teju Cole

In an age of mayhem, everyone needs ballast and, for most people, I would guess, that ballast is made of several different things. Near the top of my personal list: photobooks. I take a photobook off the shelf and spend twenty or thirty minutes with it, and this relatively brief immersion provisionally repairs the world.