I’m not sure I’ve worked all that out yet. I understand there are surveillance issues. When people think of drones today, the drone-paparazzi photos that Megan and Harry sued over, and drones flying over people’s houses, are what commonly come to mind. The geographical transition is something I always find stunning. One of the reasons I love Sedan is because to get there from my house, I go up into the mountains and come down out of the mountains onto the plains. There’s just a school, a church and a cemetery. What about the photo called Sedan? It looks like an open road. Copyright Stephen Shore, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York. Stephen Shore, Sedan, Montana, July 25, 2020, 2020. It’s the confluence of the Jefferson, the Madison and the Gallatin Rivers. It got its name because Lewis and Clark went to find the source of the Missouri River and it begins in Three Forks, Montana. It’s a ranch rodeo-the contestants come from the different ranches around the area. I don’t mean that in a bad way! I love Wilsall, I go there frequently. Well, I don’t know if they’re going to be going to Wilsall. With large cities like New York being emptied out due to the pandemic, do you think more people will move to more rural, less-populated places like you’ve photographed in Montana? When she grew up she became a paleoanthropologist, making her life’s work to write about this burial site. When it was discovered, there was a young girl who was just three years old…this was a major thing in her life, a child’s body was discovered that was thousands of years old, who lived at the ranch. Between Wilsall and the next town, Clyde Park, the oldest human burial site in the U.S. It makes you wonder, who lives there? You’re bringing people there. Stephen Shore, Wilsall, Montana, July 25, 2020, 2020. It’s just like when you take off on a plane, there’s a period before you get up to cloud level where you’re a certain height from the ground and you can see structures of land and development that make more sense, in a way, than at eye level. To see the places in the air, you understand it in a different way. I learned specific things, like a road I’ve been down a number of times, which has hills on both sides, I could send the drone over the hills and find a stream I didn’t know about. What did you see this summer that was new? I was careful in my daily life, but it didn’t affect the work. People were being careful, but things were fairly relaxed, which has its downside because now things are out of control there. When I arrived in June there were very few cases. ![]() How different is Montana this year due to the pandemic? Just being able to see a small village is a really interesting experience to see from the air. In some of the work, I’m interested in how construction and human presence relates to the land. I knew they’d present an interesting visual opportunity. ![]() ![]() I love them, I’ve visited them for years. They’re small towns in Montana that are out there on the plains. What are the areas around Montana like? They feel like places we wouldn’t otherwise typically see. I always start with something I can see, but then I go exploring. It can go half a mile, or more, away from me. I think: “Here’s a picture I can take.” But once I have the drone up in the sky, I can just send it off. Copyright Stephen Shore, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York.įor the “Town and Country” series, how did you venture out into the countryside? Stephen Shore, Bozeman, Montana, September 10, 2020, 2020. ![]() If I move it 100 feet forward, I don’t know what I’m going to find. With a drone, if I turn it to the left or right, I don’t know what I’m going to find. I have a model already in my mind, as anyone would walking down the street. I know what it’s going to look like, how the picture will change if I step forward or look to my left. When I’m on the street with a camera, I can see all the possibilities. Secondly, it’s a very different way of photographing for me. The image is representative only the size, layout and furniture may vary (within the same cabin category).I love it.
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