American surfaces / Stephen Shore.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Phaidon, 2005.Description: 231 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cmISBN: - 0714845078 (hbk.)
- 9780714845074 (hbk.)
- 770.92 SHO
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| 770.92 SHE Cindy Sherman / | 770.92 SHO Uncommon places : the complete works / | 770.92 SHO Young city : Limerick photographs by Tom Shortt | 770.92 SHO American surfaces / | 770.92 SHO Stephen Shore. Survey. | 770.92 SID Malick Sidibé : photographs. | 770.92 SIE Jeanloup Sieff 40 years of photography |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In 1972, Stephen Shore left New York City and set out with a friend to Amarillo, Texas. He didn't drive, so his first view of America was framed by the passenger's window frame. He was taken aback by the fact that his experience of life as a New Yorker had very little in common with the character and aspirations of Middle America. Later that year he set out again, this time on his own, with just a driver's licence and a Rollei 35 - a point-and-shoot camera - to explore the country through the eyes of an everyday tourist.
The project was entitled American Surfaces, in reference to the superficial nature of his brief encounters with places and people, and the underlying character of the images that he hoped to capture. Shore photographed relentlessly and returned to New York triumphant, with hundreds of rolls of film spilling from his bags. In order to remain faithful to the conceptual foundations of the project, he followed the lead of most tourists of the time and sent his film to be developed and printed in Kodak's labs in New Jersey.
The result was hundreds and hundreds of exquisitely composed colour pictures, that became the benchmark for documenting our fast-living, consumer-orientated world. The corpus of his work - following on from Walker Evans' and Robert Frank's epic experiences of crossing America - influenced photographers such as Martin Parr and Bernd & Hilla Becher, who in turn introduced a new generation of students to Shore's work.
Includes index.