200 Days, 200 Photo Books

Stephen Shore: American Surfaces

Phaidon Press 2005, ISBN 978 0 7148 4863 1

“After being the teenage documentarian of the Warhol scene, Stephen Shore went bounding out across the United States, carrying with him a precocious aesthetic sense and love of the ordinary. The pictures seem to be the remnants of a ‘Great Undertaking’; you can feel the youthful energy and ambition inherent in them. It turned out being more of a pilot experiment that would be taken to completion later with Shore’s Uncommon Places. Still I love the looseness of these photographs, the machine-like dedication to documentation, from toilets to plates of food and all the people in between. More than a tribute to americanism, these images are a testament to the lasting freshness of banality, much like all those soup cans, back in the Factory.”

- Jim Reed, Project Manager 200 Days 200 Photo Books, Founder of Easter Trouble Press