{"product_id":"ed-ruscha-and-some-los-angeles-apartments-book","title":"Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLos Angeles–based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artist’s books, receiving widespread critical acclaim for more than half a century. Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and the beautiful, his photobooks of the 1960s—such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTwentysix Gasoline Stations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEvery Building on the Sunset Strip\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSome Los Angeles Apartments\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThirtyfour Parking Lots\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—are known for their deadpan cataloguing of the city’s functional architecture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis publication features thirty-eight Ruscha plates and an essay that traces the evolution of the artist’s thinking about his photographs initially as the means to the end of his self-published photobooks and eventually as works of art in and of themselves. Virginia Heckert contextualizes Ruscha’s photographs within the history of photographic documentation of vernacular architecture, using examples by such important photographers as Carleton Watkins, Eugène Atget, and Walker Evans, as well as contemporary photographers, many of whom have acknowledged Ruscha as an influence in their own depiction of the built environment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e88 pages, 8\" x 10\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Getty Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40110325170225,"sku":"Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments Book","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0116\/4592\/files\/gettybooks_edruschaapartments_1.jpg?v=1709238513","url":"https:\/\/shop-generalstore.mom\/products\/ed-ruscha-and-some-los-angeles-apartments-book","provider":"General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}