Steven Shore

Stephen Shore seems to use depth and perception in ways that makes a person have to stare at his photos.  In the photo above, taken on the border of mexico and U.S, he makes us peer deep into his pictures.  There is an old truck, or maybe the mountain that he is leading us to, but he is leading us to look at something.  Manipulation through photograph is common, but few can do it like Stephen Shore.  He was one of the first of the pioneers of color photography, helping to make it popular.  Stephen recieved his first darkroom kit at age six as a present from his uncle, and that's all it took-he was hooked.  He experimented with several different formats and finally settling on the  8x10.  I think his photos are stoic, and predictable yet eerily attractive.