U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon
This photograph succinctly demonstrates the post-Romantic perspective on American landscape that Shore shared with the other photographers associated with the "New Topographics" in the mid-1970s. Rather than the majestic views produced by Timothy O'Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Minor White (who was Shore's teacher), Shore gives us an image of nature occluded by its own representation. An ironic commentary on "authentic' natural experience, this photograph also displays Shore's impeccable color sense—which, along with that of a few other photographers in the 1970s—pulled color photography out of its exile in the commercial world and into the realm of serious art.
Artwork Details
- Title: U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon
- Artist: Stephen Shore (American, born 1947)
- Date: 1973, printed 2002
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Charina Foundation Inc. Gift, 2002
- Object Number: 2002.224
- Rights and Reproduction: © Stephen Shore
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
More Artwork
Research Resources
The Met provides unparalleled resources for research and welcomes an international community of students and scholars. The Met's Open Access API is where creators and researchers can connect to the The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.
To request images under copyright and other restrictions, please use this Image Request form.
Feedback
We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.