Landscape - Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore is an American photographer who is known for his quite common, mundane scenes and objects set in the USA and also for his use of colour photography in the 60s, 70s and onwards. He started doing photography at a very early age and even had a little darkroom kit at the tender age of 6. At ten he had a book by Walker Evans and he later presented his photographs to Edward Steichen at age 14 who at the time was working at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as the curator. When Shore was 17 he was introduced to Andy Warhol and began hanging out at Warhol's studio, famously known as 'the Factory'. Whilst there he photographed the famous people who used to visit the Factory as well as Warhol himself. I have picked the image below as I liked the look of it because of the quite cliched look of it, blue skies, little white cloud, mountains in the background and a clear road, which This type of shot in america for this landscape is always near enough the same however this is different as, in my opinion, and what I think would be normally is the image would be taken from the centre of the road with the white line in the middle going down the frame all the way down and used for perspective whereas here the image is taken to the side of the road and is focused more on the clouds as the centre and focus of the image. In the image further down there are two poles and they are equally on each side with even amounts of each side.

The above image is found on the link below and taken by Stephen Shore.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/shore.shtml