The first retrospective exhibition devoted to Stephen Shore (New York, 1947) covers the main conceptual cores of this work: the reflection on photographic language, the analysis of the landscape and the meaningful use of color. Over his four decades of work – the MoMA bought three of his photographs when he was just fourteen years old – there has been a constant research on what he himself defined as ‘snapshotness:’ capturing banal and anodyne situations through apparently amateur images. The book on his series Uncommon Places, published in 1982, became a key work for a whole generation of young photographers. The images gathered here belong to this series.