Perhaps this is a little geeky, but I hear that geek is the new black so I shall proceed…
I was keen to look at the locations of the original images in the 1982 publication as I had been noticing so many Texas, Florida and California locations that I wondered how the spread of images fell across a map. I plotted all locations from the original map into a google map which is placed below.
View Stephen Shore’s ‘Uncommon Places’ in a larger map
You can see from the spread just how many States are left unrepresented by Shore’s democratic camera. And while I am not suggesting each State and town should be represented equally, I find it interesting that so much of middle America was ignored in the original.
For those counting, the States with the most images are:
Texas…7
Florida…6
California…4
– Matt
3 replies on “Stephen Shore’s ‘Uncommon Places’ and Geography”
[…] I am just amusing myself here but I enjoyed looking at Stephen Shore’s ‘Uncommon Places’ locations on a map of the US a few weeks back and so had a quick play with the locations of another American […]
I just shot the Bay Theater last summer on a weekend trip. Its been renovated over the last 40 years, but has the same general look.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eljung/5885645427/
Erik,
That’s awesome to see, thanks for the share. I have just been told of this ‘history image’ too: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=392624504784&set=a.231971174784.129176.589419784&type=3&theater
M