American Surfaces

Stephen Shore is one of the photographers who established colour photography as a legitimate medium of artistic expression. American Surfaces is one of the bodies of work which exemplifies why. A mix between Atget’s Paris, which documents just about every façade, tree and street corner available, and Robert Frank’s apparently casual, Americans’ road trip, this, little published body of work, took documentary photography to a whole new level and opened up an entire range of possibilities to the next generation of photographers