Stephen Shore is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include Uncommon Places (1982) and American Surfaces (1999), photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in the 1970s.
Stephen Shore
Shore receiving the German Society for Photography's Culture Award, with Prof. Dr. Nickel (Chairman of DGPh)
Color photography is a type of photography that uses media capable of capturing and reproducing colors. By contrast, black-and-white or gray-monochrome photography records only a single channel of luminance (brightness) and uses media capable only of showing shades of gray.
The first color photograph made by the three-color method suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1855, taken in 1861 by Thomas Sutton. The subject is a colored ribbon, usually described as a tartan ribbon.
A color photograph made by Gabriel Lippmann in the 1890s, containing no pigments or dyes of any kind.
A 1908 Autochrome Lumière photograph of American author Mark Twain.
A 1914 color photograph of the Taj Mahal published in a 1921 issue of National Geographic magazine.