Stephen Shore - Uncommon Places

Posted on The Art Newspaper - Why do you usually show your pictures in a small format? - There are different experiences in looking at pictures on the wall; and when the picture is very large it in a way washes over the viewer. The viewer can just stand there and experience it, which is perfectly fine. When the picture is small the viewer has to pay attention to it and a person can walk by it and not receive it as happened with a lot of people when I first showed “American Surfaces”. But if you pay attention to it a channels of communication open up along with kind of access of attention, so if I give my attention to this photograph, now the photograph can communicate with me in a subtler way, I believe.