Stephen Shore, Ginger Shore, Causeway Inn, Tampa, Florida, November 17, 1977Courtesy of the artist and Thames & HudsonDazzling swimming pools, skies of unflinching blue, the angular petrol station, the endless dusty road, the Cadillac, the clapboard house, the unpalatable nude of a motel eiderdown. Today, these elements of life in America have become its first language – the established shorthand to denote a world of languor and sun-bleached space, so familiar that it seems to have been that way forever. Yet these vignettes and...