Form and Pressure Response
Stephen Shore’s form and pressure is an incredible way of analyzing photography on a painterly level. Currently I am in a scientific liberal education course where we look at the history of science and where it comes from. I analyzed Thomas Kuhn’s paradigms which essentially is the idea that science heavily relies on the scientific community and pre established theories to farther advance science. I feel as if Shore is also hinting at this advancement in form and pressure with his Kepler example and the difference between the heliocentric and the geocentric earth models. Shore uses examples of his own work days apart to see the difference considering the form of objects and the relationships they have with another. Shore tries to capture the scene more as if he is there within the photograph and what it is like to be there and not overly manufacturing the image. He describes the difference between structure and composition which in turn are actually quite different. Composition is a sy...