Palm Beach, Florida, November 8
A sun-drenched street scene captures the quiet, languid atmosphere of Palm Beach, Florida, rendered in Shore's characteristically cool, detached gaze. The chromogenic print bathes the composition in warm, saturated light, highlighting the mundane details of suburban American life with a painterly precision. Shore's deadpan approach transforms an ordinary moment into a meditative study of color, geometry, and the passage of time.
- Medium
- Chromogenic print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
October 1, 2014
Estimate: $5,000 to $7,000
Sold: $10,000
Artists in conversation
William Eggleston
American · b. 1939
Eggleston pioneered color photography with the same warm chromogenic saturation and deadpan focus on ordinary American suburban scenes, transforming mundane roadside details and everyday life into quietly meditative compositions.
Joel Sternfeld
American · b. 1944
Sternfeld shares Shore's cool documentary detachment and his large format color images of American landscapes and suburban environments carry the same New Topographics sensibility of precise geometry bathed in naturalistic light.
Robert Adams
American · b. 1937
A central figure in the New Topographics movement alongside Shore, Adams documents the American suburban and urban landscape with a similarly measured and contemplative gaze that elevates ordinary built environments into studies of light and space.
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