24 Quotes by Stephen Shore

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I used.

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it.

There’s something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn’t mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by the camera, that you can’t use the limitations or the transformation to have an observation that is a very subtle perception of the world.

I do what feels natural, but I can’t say I haven’t thought about it...

Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s twice that.