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American Surfaces | 
| Creator: Stephen Shore
Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 257583
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0714848638
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780714848631
ASIN: 0714848638
Publication Date: May 7, 2008
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Product Description
AMERICAN SURFACES is a highly influential body of work by a master photographer who helped establish colour photography as a legitimate medium of artistic expression. The book is comprised of a chronological sequence of photographs of vernacular America taken in the early 1970s, most of which are previously unpublished. These photographs have been widely exhibited and discussed throughout Europe and the United States. AMERICAN SURFACES is styled as a photo-diary of Shore's travels across America, bridging the gap between the road trip tradition of Walker Evans and Robert Frank and the fascination with the ordinary exhibited by Bernd and Hilla Becher and Martin Parr. This new paperback edition is a must-have for everyone interested in the history of twentieth-century photography, and it is perfect for art and photography students.
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 Excellent, beautiful book! July 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book looks great and has an incredible collection of photographs printed at actual size. Really nice addition to my library.
Helping us See Again...Beyond Critiques of American Consumer Fetishism September 27, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I loved this book, partly because I love this photographer's eye. Are the pictures documentary? Sure. Are they wry? Often, though not always. They are beautiful in the most strange, farfetched, formal aesthetic sense (shapes, colors, imaginary visual lines). That about sums it up. Stephan Shore's pictures exist on many levels simultaneously---one reason they are worth owning in book form, able to be revisited many times over a long time. Shore has a genuine gift, and he shares it with whomever takes the time to really look. This older work is relevant to contemporary production worldwide (i.e., Thomas Struth). Hopefully you will enjoy this book as much as I do.
 American Surfaces, pretentious time capsule? February 25, 2006
16 out of 34 found this review helpful
It's hard to tell how vital this visual diary is in the grand scheme of photography. It's a very personal travelogue. Shore is obsessed with himself and where he goes and what he sees. As a summary of early seventies pop culture it is fantastic. You can find out what people looked like and more importantly, what everything else looked like. I appreciate this aspect of the book, it's a reference guide to 1972. I think some of the photography is top notch but think that the book would be stronger edited down a bit. It's more interesting than the original but packs less of a punch. Could you live without it? Of course. Do you want to? No.
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