Sean O'Hagan meets photographer Stephen Shore -> The Observer →

In his spare time, Stephen Shore is a keen fly fisher. In 1982, when his first book of American photographs, Uncommon Places, was published, he said: ‘Fishing, like photography, is an art that calls forth intelligence, concentration and delicacy.’ When I read that quote back to him, he nods and says: ‘Now I’d add the word “attention”. That’s the big connection. Fishing and photography are both exercises in attention.’

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