The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and … - Stephen Shore

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Stephen Shore

The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and see the little bits of everyday life that a native might take for granted, but that are special to the place, while at the same time, not taking a picture that would be a tourist cliché.

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I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

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I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this is very different to the way it was for me, which was that I wanted to understand photography and the world and myself.

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I'm not interested in doing the same kind of picture over and over again. I pose problems for myself. Sometimes they are aesthetic problems and sometimes they are logistical problems.

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I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.

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If I only try to solve the problems I set for myself, then I'm limited by what I can conceive of. I can't solve a problem I can't conceive. But if someone else gives me a visual problem, it can be out of the whole realm of my normal practice.

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