Los-Angeles based contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artists books, receiving widespread critical acclaim for more than half a century. Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and beautiful, his photobooks of the 1960s such as TwentySix Gasoline Stations and Some Los Angeles Apartments are known for their deadpan cataloguing of the citys functional architecture. This volume features 38 Ruscha plates and an essay that traces the evolution of the artists thinking about his photographs initially as the...

John Chiara creates his own cameras and chemical processes in order to make unique photographs using the direct exposure of light onto reversal film and paper. Chiara describes his process: "When I'm out shooting, I directly expose the paper, dodge, burn, and filter the light as if I were working in the darkroom." This compression of the traditional photographic processes into one event, involving the hauling around of huge, handmade cameras and film backs, results in images that are intuitive and performative--and visually stunning. Focusing almost exclusively on landscapes and architecture,...