Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography.

[3][4][5] He was selected to participate in the influential group exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House (Rochester, New York), in 1975–1976.

"[4] His photographs of the Factory alongside those of Billy Name Kasper König selected for a documentary exhibition on Warhol at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in 1968.

[2] Along with others, especially William Eggleston, Shore is recognized as one of the leading photographers who established color photography as an art form.

[18][1] Photographers who have acknowledged his influence on their work include Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Martin Parr, Joel Sternfeld and Thomas Struth.

[20][1] His American Surfaces series, a travel diary made between 1972 and 1973 with photographs of "friends he met, meals he ate, toilets he sat on", was not published until 1999, then again in 2005.