Stephen Shore | Chanel Chair of Photography Masterclass

Stephen Shore has been announced as the inaugural recipient of the Chanel Chair in Photography at Jeu de Paume, the Parisian museum of photography, film, and electronic media. To mark the occasion, Shore will present a series of 4 masterclasses.

Stephen Shore Masterclass

From May 12 to 16, 2025
Tennis Court – Paris

The lectures will be in English with no French translation.

What is a photograph and how do we perceive it? This series of four lectures will explore the formal attributes of a photograph – how the world is translated, transformed into a photograph. They will explore the formal tools of that transformation and how those tools implement and require the imposition of structure. Finally, the lectures will describe the cognitive understanding of the image. This series begins with what a photograph is physical and formally and ends with how we ultimately receive the image.


 

Lecture 1 • 12.05.2025 • 18:30 – 20:00
The Nature of Photographs.
“A photograph is not what was photographed. It’s something else.” (Winogrand).

Lecture 2 • 13.05.2025 • 18:30 – 20:00
Form and pressure
Photography as an analytic medium: The relationship of form to content.

Lecture 3 • 15.05.2025 • 18:30 – 20:00
Attention
Experiencing the world: Paying attention to the mundane.

Lecture 4 • 16.05.2025 • 18:30 – 20:00
The Mental Level.
The level on which we ultimately experience a photograph.

For more information:
www.jeudepaume.org