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Detroiter Steve Shaw has seen every inch of Motown, and has spent his career documenting the city\u2019s majesty and frailty. The photographer has three prints in the Shinola for \nCrate & Barrel collection.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
A DIFFERENT ROUTE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Photographer Steve Shaw has lived in Detroit his entire life. Its streets still reveal something new to him every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEven this morning, I was looking at the light on my way into work. I\u2019m seeing it all the time,\u201d Shaw explains during a recent conversation at the Detroit Institute of Arts, where he\u2019s worked since 1998 as an art handler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of Shaw\u2019s first jobs was delivering auto parts around the city. Driving up and down the avenues and alleys of Detroit sparked an urge to document it somehow. He started to bring a camera to do just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shaw\u2019s unique eye for Detroit has been embraced in the city\u2019s diverse culture as a potent time capsule, from the gritty garage rock scene to the sacred halls of one of the nation\u2019s most treasured art museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Detroit photographer Steve Shaw is known for his eye for signature Detroit scenes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Shaw\u2019s photography is richly layered. A wide view of a street corner or shop front is rich with a
sense of place\u2014and upon inspection, peppered with details. Lean into Shaw\u2019s work, and you\u2019ll
find there\u2019s even more to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Work like this, Shaw says, can not be confined to a simple formula. You just have to be there,
in the moment, eyes open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI always have this hyper awareness in terms of flux\u2014things changing and evolving. And things change in Detroit rapidly. Even seasonally\u2014not to do with deterioration or renovation. A month. A year. I see the change.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
AVENUES OF ART<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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While living in Detroit\u2019s Cass Corridor area in the 80s and 90s, Steve had one foot planted in the music scene and the other in the visual arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shaw founded and played guitar for the Detroit Cobras. He was good friends with Detroit garage rock band the Gories, designing and photographing several albums for the trio. When not performing, Shaw gained notoriety as a photographer at live shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This wasn\u2019t unusual\u2014in fact, it was the norm for Detroit\u2019s creative arts scene. \u201cIn the early 90s, everyone I was making art with two years before was now in a band,\u201d Shaw laughs. In this convergence of mediums, the line between artists and musicians was blurred.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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For example: A photograph of Shaw\u2019s in the DIA\u2019s \u2018Detroit After Dark\u2019 Collection features the Gories surrounded by stunning paintings. This wasn\u2019t artistic license \u2014 they were literally playing a rock show at an art opening at the Willis Gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat was a pretty classic Cass Corridor scene in the 80\u2019s. And of course, there were maybe 20 people there,\u201d he laughs. \u201cThis was also a time when a lot of people moved to places like New York, Seattle, New Orleans\u2026 we were the people who stuck around.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Above and right: Shaw took Shinola on one of his trademark neighborhood jaunts to capture a few settings he\u2019s had his eye on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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SHINOLA BRINGS STEVE SHAW TO YOUR HOME<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
For the past few decades, it has become popular to show Detroit through the lens of vacant buildings or rundown streets. The Shinola for Crate and Barrel<\/a> Collection invites people to see Detroit through the lens of a Detroiter who dedicated his work to capturing the heart and soul of the city that put the world on wheels, and the city that revolutionized American music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three large-scale, gallery-quality 60\u201d by 40\u201d prints of Shaw\u2019s photography are now available through this new collection: W. Warren Ave., Dearborn, Michigan 1983; Stratford Theater, Detroit, Michigan; and Dequindre Cut, Detroit, Michigan 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These photographs of well-traveled roads and well-loved destinations are throwbacks and icons, a tribute to what has remained and a nod to what is renewed. In their crystal-clear specificity, they are timeless and universal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After all this time, is it a challenge to shoot what\u2019s so familiar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shaw has asked himself the same question. \u201cThere have been time periods where I asked, are things starting to look a little bit the same? Am I still interested?\u201d Back in the day, he might tend toward music more until he found his way back. Now, he just waits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shaw always comes back to flux. Detroit changes quickly, and he is moved by the physicality of places. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing how much of yourself is shaped by where you are.\u201d After a recent move to Hamtramck, where he lives now, he was struck by the differences in his drive to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The familiar can be made new again if you keep your eyes open. These days, Shaw still jumps in the car to cruise around and see what catches his lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI might take a different route, so that I see something new.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how much of your self is shaped by where you are.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The artist in his home garden in Hamtramck, Michigan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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