Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore is an American photographer known for his images of common scenes and objects in the United States, and for his use of color in art photography.
His book, Uncommon Places,  helped pave the way for Color photography seen as art in the modern era.

Stephen Shore
Room 110, Holiday Inn, Brainerd, MI, July 11, 1973


This scene immediately draws my attention since it's all to familiar image in my mind.  The furniture and everything shows that it is from a different time.  Wood paneling is something we don't see very often either.  Either way it makes think about the countless people that have been in that room. Families, friends, and maybe enemies too. I imagine myself sitting on that chair with a cigarette (even though I don't really smoke) and a highball glass... pondering my next move. To me at least it makes it a very powerful photograph when I start imagining myself in it.