Stephen Shore - Early Work velvet cell

Stephen Shore - Early Work velvet cellMACK 2025 At the age of six, Stephen Shore received a Kodak Darkroom kit, a gift that unearthed a passion and inquisitiveness that would go on to define his entire life. Shore began to develop a unique relationship to the chemical alchemy of the darkroom and to the camera itself: a tool through which he would uncover the characters and complexities of the world around him. Early Work collects for the first time the entirely unseen photographs created

which creates a dreamy

As a descendant of Louisianans who moved west during the Great Migration

helped to form my vision of the play of children as a kind of rite or performance

who has moved back and forth between California

It is my personal experience as a daughter

screengrabs and iPhone photos

from aerial reconnaissance and the American dustbowl to Mussolini’s final car journey and the wars in Iraq

by the lake

Using a desolate desert lake as a theatrical backdrop

these accumulated comforts

The manipulation of these scenes introduces infinite possibility

Socorro (meaning ‘succour’ or ‘relief’)