Stephen Shore American Surfaces (Phaidon) SIGNED

Signed in pencil on the half-title page by Shore. Black paper-covered boards, with title stamped in pale orange on cover and spine, with matt black paper dust jacket printed with title in orange and gray on front and spine.

The book is contained in a laminated printed paper facsimile of a c. 1972 Kodak color finishing envelope. Includes an index of place names for the photographs.

With approximately 200 four-color plates printed on thick matt paper. 9 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches (bag measures 13 x 8 3/4 inches). CONDITION: New in New dust jacket and New Kodak enclosure bag (opened only for signature). Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).

From the publisher: 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 a driver's license 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 -- referring to the superficial nature of his brief encounters with places and people and the underlying character of the images that he hoped to produce.

With such an easy-to-use camera, he photographed relentlessly. In American Surfaces, I was photographing almost every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I peed in. But also, I was photographing streets I was driving through, buildings I would see.

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, whose subject became the benchmark for documenting of our fast-living, consumer-orientated world -- a body of work that followed on from Walker Evans and Robert Frank's experiences of crossing America and that influenced reams of photographers such as Martin Parr and Bernd & Hilla Becher, who introduced a generation of students to Shore's work. Take a look at my other listings of fine photography books. The item "Stephen Shore American Surfaces (Phaidon) SIGNED" is in sale since Monday, October 31, 2011. This item is in the category "Books\Nonfiction".

The seller is "vpborrel" and is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Year: 20050000
• Subject: Art & Photography
• Language: English
• Topic: Photography
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition

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