Known for banal yet memorable photos like his 1973 image of a diner table set with pancakes, a glass of milk and a half cantaloupe, Stephen Shore’s images of rural and small-town America are now iconic documents of life in the later 20th century. Shore’s latest body of work from his ‘Topographies’ series at 303 Gallery has been shot by drone, allowing him to pull away from his subjects and picture interactions between the built environment and nature. In one image, a pipeline crosses a road in upstate New York creating an artful X on the landscape while in other scenes, crossroads dominate sparsely populated communities and single-lane roads stretch on into eternity in developments that represent the imposition of human will on the landscape. Here, Shore juxtaposes majestic mountain views in Montana with a gleaming trailer in the foreground to consider contemporary fantasies of living on the land. (On view in Chelsea through July 3rd).
