About The Book
Shore’s essay is devoted to Monet’s beloved gardens. In 1977, the Versailles Foundation undertook the restoration of the painter’s French home landscape; Shore was commissioned to record the five year renaissance.
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About The Artist
Stephen Shore‘s work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty-five years. He was the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, forty years earlier.
More than 25 books have been published of Stephen Shore’s photographs including Uncommon Places: The Complete Works; American Surfaces; Stephen Shore, a retrospective monograph in Phaidon’s Contemporary Artists series; Stephen Shore: Survey and most recently, Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979 and Stephen Shore: Elements. In 2017, the Museum of Modern Art published Stephen Shore in conjunction with their retrospective of his photographic career. Stephen also wrote The Nature of Photographs, published by Phaidon Press, which addresses how a photograph functions visually.
Since 1982 he has been the director of the Photography Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.
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Specifics
Stephen Shore: The Gardens at Giverny: A View of Monet’s World ( Aperture, 1983) // Introduction by John Rewald // Essays by Daniel Wildenstein and Gerald Van Der Kamp.
Source: https://archive.org/details/gardensatgiverny0000shor
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