14.04.16

Photographer Stephen Shore is featured at the Vancouver Art Gallery at the moment. His pictures pull me in for many reasons. His compositions are balanced, the colours vibrant, and they clearly evoke a time. But there is also honesty, particularly among the portraits. And then there is the concept of the Road Trip. For I too might feel as though the era of the classic journey by car may be mostly in the past - and as it should be. From the post-was period to the 1980's cars were large and powerful and gasoline affordable. And cars were plentiful in their all of there pre-digital diversity and distinctive odiferousness.