The images Shore took during his travels across America in 1972–1973 are considered the gold standard for documenting the mundane. This is the original edition of *American Surfaces*, published in 2005. As such, it brings together 320 photographs from the original edition and sequence. American Surfaces is a photographic version of a road movie, and in that tradition, it sometimes has a somber mood: its director/protagonist is often drawn to gloom and banality. Often, nothing seems to be happening. Or something entirely mundane has been captured.
And yet, there is immense beauty here—a beauty found where one least expects it—as well as humor and pathos. In short, *American Surfaces* is a meditation on what it means to be in the world. On what it means to point a camera in one direction rather than another; and no matter what is captured, its subject is always photography itself.
Published by Phaidon, 2005
Signed
21.15 x 24.45 cm
232 pages
ISBN: 978-0714848631
The images Shore took during his travels across America in 1972–1973 are considered the gold standard for documenting the mundane. This is the original edition of *American Surfaces*, published in 2005. As such, it brings together 320 photographs from the original edition and sequence. American Surfaces is a photographic version of a road movie, and in that tradition, it sometimes has a somber mood: its director/protagonist is often drawn to gloom and banality. Often, nothing seems to be happening. Or something entirely mundane has been captured.
And yet, there is immense beauty here—a beauty found where one least expects it—as well as humor and pathos. In short, *American Surfaces* is a meditation on what it means to be in the world. On what it means to point a camera in one direction rather than another; and no matter what is captured, its subject is always photography itself.
Published by Phaidon, 2005
Signed
21.15 x 24.45 cm
232 pages
ISBN: 978-0714848631
