American Surfaces, Stephen Shore?s ground breaking and largely unpublished series of photographs from 1972 - 3, took documentary photography to a new level. When first exhibited at the light Gallery in New York this visual diary of shore?s travels across the United States confoundede critics.- Displayed as hundreds and hundreds of colour photographs, processed simply at Kodak?s labs in New Jersey, they were a stark contrast to the formal, black and white prints that were recognized as art photography at the time.
