<![CDATA[American Surfaces]]>

false <![CDATA[American Surfaces]]> 2127172 2 <div>Originally published by Aperture in 1982 and long unavailable, Stephen Shore's now legendary book Uncommon Places has influenced a generation of photographers. Shore was among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography. Uncommon Places--his visionary series of images of the American vernacular landscape of the seventies and early eighties--stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic tradition over the past three decades. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works presents an expanded, definitive collection of the early work of this major artist, much of which has never before been published or exhibited. In 1972 Shore set out with a friend for Amarillo, Texas and--like Robert Frank and Walker Evans before him--discovered a hitherto unarticulated vision of America via highway and camera. Shore approaches his subjects with cool objectivity, the photographs seemingly devoid of drama or commentary. Yet each image has been distilled, retaining precise internal systems of gestures in composition and light through which a parking lot emptied of people, a hotel bedroom, or a building on a side street assumes both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal importance. In contrast to Shore's signature landscape images, this new, expanded survey of the original series reveals equally substantial collections of interiors and portraits. Shore's broad influence can be seen today in the work of countless contemporary photographers--Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky and Catherine Opie among them. Uncommon Places: The Complete Works provides an opportunity to reexamine the diverse implications of Shore's groundbreaking project and offers a fundamental primer for the last thirty years of large-format color photography. </div> 634724 1999 American Surfaces 1972 total:12|5:7|4:4|3:0|2:1|1:0| 12 53 21 0 5 0 false false Sun Oct 25 16:36:40 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 16:36:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 02 00:49:12 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 00:49:12 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Sep 02 23:04:48 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 23:04:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 20 17:04:27 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 17:08:35 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Apr 17 08:50:25 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 08:50:25 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Mar 25 12:38:13 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 17:38:32 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 12:38:13 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Mar 03 09:58:36 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 09:58:36 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Mar 01 20:43:54 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 20:43:54 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 16:47:51 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 16:47:51 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Feb 23 17:09:47 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 17:09:58 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Dec 10 13:20:46 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 13:20:46 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 28 14:00:43 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 22:48:57 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Nov 12 06:07:28 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 06:07:30 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 11:42:27 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 16:39:36 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 11:42:27 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Oct 03 07:57:52 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 07:57:52 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Aug 28 17:05:50 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 17:05:54 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed May 21 23:35:04 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 23:35:04 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Mar 08 12:25:02 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 12:25:02 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Nov 21 09:13:16 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 21 09:13:16 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Mon Oct 22 16:49:59 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 16:49:59 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2127172