Keep the French Fries
Breakfast, Trail’s End Restaurant, Kanab, Utah, August 10, 1973 © Stephen Shore. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York.
I am consistently inspired by photography’s capacity to find order and meaning in the everyday details of life. I am reminded of Stephen Shore’s photograph of his breakfast, Trail’s End Restaurant, Kanab, Utah, August 10, 1973, from his iconic book Uncommon Places. A recipient of a recent retrospective at MoMA, Shore’s photographs reveal the mystery and intense beauty of banality. Scenes and objects that are so common that we rarely pay attention to them take on an uncommon significance. His photographs contain ...
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