AMERICAN SURFACES - Stephen Shore
The images Shore took on his travels across America in 1972-1973 are considered the benchmark for documenting the mundane. This is the original edition of American Surfaces, published in 2005. Consequently, it brings together 320 photographs from the original edition and sequence. American Surfaces is a photographic version of a road movie, and in this tradition, it sometimes has a dark mood: its director/protagonist is often drawn to gloom and banality. Often, nothing seems to happen, or something quite banal is recorded.
And yet, there is immense beauty here - beauty found where we least expect it - as well as humor and pathos. In conclusion, American Surfaces is a meditation on what it means to be in the world. About what it means to point a camera in one direction rather than another, and no matter what is recorded, its subject is always the photograph itself.
Published by Phaidon, 2005
Signed
21.15 x 24.45 cm
232 pages
ISBN: 978-0714848631
The images Shore took on his travels across America in 1972-1973 are considered the benchmark for documenting the mundane. This is the original edition of American Surfaces, published in 2005. Consequently, it brings together 320 photographs from the original edition and sequence. American Surfaces is a photographic version of a road movie, and in this tradition, it sometimes has a dark mood: its director/protagonist is often drawn to gloom and banality. Often, nothing seems to happen, or something quite banal is recorded.
And yet, there is immense beauty here - beauty found where we least expect it - as well as humor and pathos. In conclusion, American Surfaces is a meditation on what it means to be in the world. About what it means to point a camera in one direction rather than another, and no matter what is recorded, its subject is always the photograph itself.
Published by Phaidon, 2005
Signed
21.15 x 24.45 cm
232 pages
ISBN: 978-0714848631
The images Shore took on his travels across America in 1972-1973 are considered the benchmark for documenting the mundane. This is the original edition of American Surfaces, published in 2005. Consequently, it brings together 320 photographs from the original edition and sequence. American Surfaces is a photographic version of a road movie, and in this tradition, it sometimes has a dark mood: its director/protagonist is often drawn to gloom and banality. Often, nothing seems to happen, or something quite banal is recorded.
And yet, there is immense beauty here - beauty found where we least expect it - as well as humor and pathos. In conclusion, American Surfaces is a meditation on what it means to be in the world. About what it means to point a camera in one direction rather than another, and no matter what is recorded, its subject is always the photograph itself.
Published by Phaidon, 2005
Signed
21.15 x 24.45 cm
232 pages
ISBN: 978-0714848631