{"product_id":"american-surfaces-9780714848631","title":"American Surfaces","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1972  Stephen Shore left New York City and set out with a friend to Amarillo  Texas. He didnt drive  so his first view of America was framed by the passengers 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 drivers 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 Kodaks 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 Franks epic experiences of crossing America - influenced photographers such as Martin Parr and Bernd \u0026amp; Hilla Becher  who in turn introduced a new generation of students to Shores work. 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 Franks epic experiences of crossing America - influenced photographers such as Martin Parr and Bernd \u0026amp; Hilla Becher  who in turn introduced a new generation of students to Shores work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924581023797,"sku":"ByrdShop_0714848638","price":250.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780714848631.jpg?v=1794137366","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/american-surfaces-9780714848631","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}