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in conjuction wiht my huge urge to write more things on the blog and a bit delayd by my recent relocation across the atlantic and other issues, its time to start the lessons. this blog will now host form time to time intresting essays about other photographers through the view of my pictures and with relation to education and undertanding. it is my hope that more poeple read this blog then shane lavalets blog - then i will know i have truly made it.

today - lets talk about stephen shore. i have met stehoen shore at a lecture he gave for the bezalel cademy of arts and esign in jerusalem israel. not to be an ass but enough to say that it wasent a verry intresting lecture. and true photographers are not reqiuerd to be intresting speakers, though thorugh the past 4 years i noticed the the accademy does reqiuer any art student to be an elequent speaker, with good retorics and a clear line of thought to accompany his ideas and creations. so stphen shore is old school, out of the establishment, and self educated artist. he claims that he has been researching various points of view about the world and photography. he has made many pictures, published books and is a pretty famous guy.

through out his lecture he said that he is asking questions more then 10 times but even after those intense 30 years, he hasno answers, no conclutions, no new questions that arose through his study.

one might find his picrures boring, like me, yet they are defining of the new americana style of photography, the introduction of color in to the art scene, big prints, large format cameras used for informal picture taking. the long stare behind and over the shoulder, the back alley of no consequence, the gas station in a verry regular town. the land scape of no particular importance. the huge void and nulness of meaning. the eary and quickly growing feeling of nothingness that would later be called post modernism. the death of structure and rise of realism. for an analysis of stphen shore - read his book or ask miki kraztman.