Formats
Anthologies
96
Audio
309
Catalogues
441
Clothing
23
Editions
38
Ephemera
75
Literary
44
Monographs
192
Posters
299
Video
40
Zines
136

Shop > Catalogues

#15656

Stephen Shore: American Surfaces

Price
$295.00
Date
2005
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Format
Catalogues
ISBN
0-7148-4507-8
Genre
Rare & Out of Print, Contemporary Art, Photography
Description

American Surfaces, Stephen Shore’s largely unpublished series of photographs from 1972-3, took documentary photography to a new level. When first exhibited at the Light Gallery in New York this visual diary of Shore’s travels across the United States confounded critics. Displayed as hundreds and hundreds of colour photographs, processed simply at Kodak’s labs in New Jersey, they were a stark contrast to the formal, black-and-white prints that were recognized as art photography at the time.
Despite its unfavourable reviews, the show was bought in its entirety by Weston Naef, then Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, where 220 of the photographs now reside. American Surfaces has since become the benchmark for documenting our fast-living, consumer-orientated world, a body of work that followed on from Walker Evans and Robert Frank’s experiences of crossing the United States and which continues to influence photographers today.
This book brings together the largest selection of images yet published from the series and is the first time they have been sequenced in the order in which they were taken. American Surfaces follows Shore’s extraordinary journey, travelling first into the deep South before taking Route 66 from Flagstaff to Chicago, and returning home to New York to continue his visual diary in his home city.

  1. American Surfaces
 

Related Items

  1. Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Completed Works
  2. Philip Monk: The American Trip
  3. Liam Gillick
  4. Christian Boltanski: Lessons of Darkness
  5. Michael Asher: The Renaissance Society
  6. Marty Dunn, Peggy Gale, and Garry Neill Kennedy: Videoscape
  7. Gordon Lebredt, Stephen Pina, and Richard Rhodes: Comedies of Objecthood
  8. Robert Adams: What We Bought: The New World
  9. Lawrence Weiner: Flowed
  10. David Hoffos: Scenes from the House Dream: Series One
  11. Minerals Issue #4
  12. Lawrence Weiner: Coming and Going/Venant Et Partant
  13. Lawrence Weiner: CAUSALITY AFFECTED AND/OR EFFECTED
  14. Lawrence Weiner: On The Rocks : Some Questions + 5 Answers Relative to Moved Pictures
  15. Dan Cameron and William Kentridge: William Kentridge
  16. Lynne Cooke, Barry Schwabsky, Jessica Stockholder, and Lynne Tillman: Jessica Stockholder
  17. On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1957-1972
  18. Marie José Burki: Sans Attribut
  19. Deep Storage: Collecting, Storing and Archiving in Art
  20. Greg Girard: Phantom Shanghai
  21. Jenny Holzer: AM Catalogue no.13, 1989
  22. Garry Neill Kennedy: AM Catalogue no.19, 1997
  23. From Sea to Shining Sea
  24. AA Bronson, Peggy Gale, Maurizio Nannucci, Michael Snow, and Lawrence Weiner: Snow, Weiner, Nannucci
  25. Bruce Nauman: 25 Years
  26. Art & Language
  27. B. Wurtz: Daily Life, 1970-1993
  28. Jason Baerg: Tawâskweyâw ᑕᐋᐧᐢᑫᐧᔮᐤ / A Path or Gap Among the Trees
  29. The Valley
  30. Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders
  31. Jeff Wall: Photographs
  32. Gordon Lebredt: Nonworks 1975-2008
  33. Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman: Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins: Project for a New American Century
  34. Bernhard Cella: When Home Won’t Let You Stay
  35. Robert Fones: Field Identification