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...