Ed Ruscha: Every Building on the Sunset Strip (Second Printing)

RUSCHA, Ed (Edward)

Published by Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles, 1970

1966/1970. First edition, second printing. Soft cover. White matte wrappers, with title printed in silver on cover and spine, no dust jacket as issued; with silver Mylar-covered cardstock slipcase. Photographs, artist's book concept and design by Ed Ruscha. Unpaginated accordion-fold, with numerous black-and-white panoramic plates printed as if one continuous photograph across the upper and lower sections of all of the pages. 7-1/16 x 5-5/8 inches (approximately 27 feet fully-extended). This second issue was limited to 5000 copies. [Originally published in 1966 in an edition of 1000 copies, identifiable only by an extra 2-inch flap at the end of the last folded page, the result of the printer's miscalculation.] Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).]. Fine (a Mint copy), in Near Fine Mylar slipcase (light rubbing and stray indentations, a small edge crack repaired with PVA archival bookbinding glue, else Fine). Ed Ruscha took the photographs contained in this publication with a motorized Nikon camera mounted to the back of a pick-up truck. This allowed him to photograph every building on Sunset Boulevard (between Crescent Heights Boulevard in Hollywood and Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills), while driving -- first down one side of the street and then the other. The pictures were then pasted in order, the individual buildings were labeled with their respective addresses, and presented with the north side of the street at the top of the page, with the south side of the street inverted and aligned below it. Seller Inventory # 113564

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ed Ruscha: Every Building on the Sunset ...
Publisher: Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles
Publication Date: 1970
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued
Edition: 1st Edition.