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Photographer Stephen Shore

Motels and diners: ?Trail?s End Restaurant, Kanab, Utah, Aug. 10, 1973.?
Stephen Shore/Aperture Foundation
Motels and diners: ?Trail?s End Restaurant, Kanab, Utah, Aug. 10, 1973.?

American photographer Stephen Shore pioneered the use of color in art photography and documented everyday scenes in the 1960s and 70s, from a disappearing dirt road to a stack of pancakes in a diner. An exhibition of Shore's work is now on display at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. By Laura Spencer

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Kansas City, MO – KCUR's Laura Spencer caught up with Stephen Shore after a recent lecture at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-1979 continues through May 18, 2008 at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

Check here for images from the exhibition.

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