Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles
Ruscha, Ed
Los Angeles. 1967
A very fine copy of the first edition of Ruscha's fifth artist book.
From the edition limited to 2,413 copies; a second edition of 2,000 copies was issued in 1974.
'When he was working on Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Ruscha commissioned aerial photographer Art Alanis to take the photographs and told him to shoot all the empty lots he came across. While the images in the book are striking, especially those lots with herringbone patterning, Ruscha found even more to interest him in the photographs' unexpected visual features, such as the oil droppings on the ground revealed by photographing the lots without cars.' (Clive Phillpot).
[Engberg & Phillpot B5].
From the edition limited to 2,413 copies; a second edition of 2,000 copies was issued in 1974.
'When he was working on Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Ruscha commissioned aerial photographer Art Alanis to take the photographs and told him to shoot all the empty lots he came across. While the images in the book are striking, especially those lots with herringbone patterning, Ruscha found even more to interest him in the photographs' unexpected visual features, such as the oil droppings on the ground revealed by photographing the lots without cars.' (Clive Phillpot).
[Engberg & Phillpot B5].
[24 leaves]. Small 4to. (254 x 204 mm). Printed title, copyright verso and 34 captioned photographic illustrations, 7 printed recto only, 1 two-page spread, final image with small flap as issued. Original publisher's white printed wrappers, title in orange to front cover and spine and with original glassine; some slight toning to glassine at spine.
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