Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 16
2000
A quiet urban street scene captured by Stephen Shore during his seminal road trip photographs of the 1970s, this work exemplifies his signature deadpan approach to documenting everyday American and Canadian landscapes. Shore's precise compositional eye transforms an ordinary Winnipeg streetscape into a meditation on color, light, and the mundane beauty of the built environment. This signed and numbered print, part of an edition of 32, reflects Shore's meticulous attention to both the photographic process and the authentication of his work.
- Medium
- Signed, titled, dated and numbered 15/32 in ink on the verso.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs Day Sale
April 2, 2015
Artists in conversation
William Eggleston
American · b. 1939
Eggleston pioneered color photography of mundane American landscapes with the same deadpan aesthetic and precise compositional attention visible in Shore's Winnipeg streetscape, transforming ordinary suburban and urban scenes into meditations on light and everyday existence.
Joel Sternfeld
American · b. 1944
Sternfeld's large format color documentary work, particularly his American Prospects series, shares Shore's New Topographics sensibility of finding quiet beauty and cultural meaning in unremarkable built environments and roadside landscapes across North America.
Robert Adams
American · b. 1937
A core figure of the New Topographics movement alongside Shore, Adams documents the ordinary built landscape of the American West with the same neutral tones, restrained compositional clarity, and contemplative attention to how humans have shaped their everyday surroundings.
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