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Written by Guy Lane
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06 Aug 2008 |
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Though Stephen Shore’s earliest black and white photographs were favourably received, his reputation was built on two bodies of work in colour - American Surfaces
and Uncommon Places - assembled from pictures taken during a series
of 1970s road trips across the United
States.
An extraordinary third project from the era - Road Trip Journal - has languished largely unseen, until now. Like its predecessors, the Journal attests
to Shore’s fascination with the banalities of popular culture and the
idiosyncrasies of the vernacular.
Stephen Shore spoke to Guy Lane about his work, and desire to produce a distinctly impersonal diary.
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