First edition of Véhiculaire and Vernaculaire by Stephen Shore (2024)

First impression. French Language edition.

Medium format hardback in fine condition, excellent condition. Only very minor shelf wear to the bottom of the spine. No other markings. Pages clean, binding firm. 

Signed by Stephen shore to title page.

Co-published by Atelier EXB and the Foundation Henri Cartier Bresson, to accompany the exhibition Véhiculaire & Vernaculaire at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, from June 1 - September 15, 2024

190 pages

22 x 27 cm

About

Initiated by Clément Chéroux, this book and exhibition presented at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris, examine Stephen Shore's work through the unexplored prism of vehicular photography. Since the 1960s, Shore has made most of his images from a means of locomotion, be it car, train, plane or even, more recently, drone. The journey, as important as the destination, becomes a pretext for experimenting and constructing a singular photographic work. In this way, Stephen Shore explores the vernacular of the contemporary landscape, and what it reveals about American society itself.

The book presents a dozen series in chronological order, from his B&W work in Los Angeles, when he was just 21, to his two major series American Surfaces and Uncommon Places, as well as the more recent Topographies, conceived in 2020-2021, with a camera mounted on a drone. These series are punctuated by excerpts from a long interview between Stephen Shore and Clément Chéroux. Each of them wrote a text on the subject of the photographic road trip, considered a genre in its own right in the history of photography, from Jacques Henri Lartigue to Man Ray, Robert Frank and Joel Meyerowitz.