American Surfaces - 1st in Kodak Bag

CHOOSE BETWEEN A COPY IN THE ORIGINAL PAPER BACK OR ONE WITHOUT IT

American Surfaces by Stephen Shore

Both copies are first edition, first impression from 2005

About the copy with a bag

Large format hardback in fine condition. Pages clean, binding firm. Minimal wear to dust jacket, now in removable protective sleeve.

The Kodak bag is in very good condition. Seal on the bag is broken. 

About the copy without a bag

 Large format hardback in near fine condition 

Some minor wear to dust jacket, please note there is a slight mark to back of it where there might have been a price label, jacket now in a removable protective sleeve

Some very slight toning to extremities of pages, otherwise pages clean, binding firm

About American Surfaces

So, Shore’s images from his travels across America in 1972-73 are considered the benchmark for documenting the banal. This is the original edition of American Surfaces, published in 2005. As a result, it brings together 320 photographs of the original edit and sequence. American Surfaces is a photographic version of a road movie, and in that tradition it has at times a downbeat mood: its director/protagonist is often drawn to the bleak and the mundane. Frequently nothing seems to be happening. Or something wholly unremarkable has been recorded. And yet there is tremendous beauty here—beauty found where it's least expected—as well as humor and pathos. In conclusion, American Surfaces is a meditation on what it means to be in the world. On what it means to point a camera in one direction rather than another, and no matter what is being recorded its subject is always photography itself.