is an American photographer who grew up in New York, known for his images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of colour in art photography. His books include Uncommon Places in 1982 and American Surfaces in 1999, photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in the 1970s capturing the mundane aspects of American culture in straightforward, unglamorous images.

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Shore has worked with many forms of photography, switching from cheap automatic cameras to large-format cameras in the 1970s, pioneering the use of colour before returning to black and white in the 1990s, and in the 2000s taking up the opportunities of digital photography, digital printing, and social media. He focused on capturing day to day aspects of an average Americans life such as fast food joints and housing he didn’t make an attempt to glamorise the human effects to a once natural environment this can be seen through his new Topographic images.

He was known as one of many new topographic photographers who killed romanticism in photography.

I really like this image as it doesn’t make an attempt to glamorise an aspect of day to day life the image captures movement on the roads which shows the hustle of living in the city in the 1970s. the mountain range in the back adds an element of what the garage could have looked like if it hadn’t been created by man kind the lighting creates a focus on the road which pulls you away from the signs which are scattered around in the foreground of the image and towards the mountain range in the horizon.