Stephen Shore's American Surfaces is a photographic version of a road movie, and in that tradition it has at times a downbeat mood; its director/protagonist 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. 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.