A Road Trip Journal, photographs and text by Stephen Shore, limited edition hardcover, 256 pages, 17.2 x 12.1 x 2.1 inches, 8.2 pounds, Phaidon Press, list price: $250
It's a time of renewed enthusiasm in our country, perhaps like it was in ... 1973? Yes, the price is steep for this superb monograph. But for a collector with deep pockets and a deeper admiration for the master shooter that Stephen Shore is, it's worth every penny. An homage to photographer Robert Frank's seminal road journal The Americans (1959), Shore's book intricately chronicles Shore's own meandering monthlong trek in 1973 across a then far quainter USA. The accumulated images of his motel and restaurant receipts and of the churches and buildings and crossroads that caught Shore's inimitable eye — plus the scrawled notations of every meal and mile he logged — add up to an idiosyncratic time capsule and the most bizarre of travelogue mysteries.
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