![]() ![]() ![]() The negatives were developed, contact sheets were made, and the materials were placed in storage. Loading a continuous strip of 33 feet of Ilford FP-4 black & white 35mm film into his motor-drive Nikon F2 and then mounting it on a tripod in the bed of a pickup truck, he drove back and forth across the 12 miles of the street shooting, frame-by-frame, both the north and south sides of its entire length. In July, 1973 he followed the same procedure while documenting Hollywood Boulevard. One of the most well-known of Ruscha's books from that early period is Every Building on The Sunset Strip, showing a famous stretch of real estate along Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, published in 1966. THEN & NOW is the first artist's book that Ruscha has independently created since 1972. Usually self-published and in small print runs, these publications have become seminal works in the history of conceptual art and the photography book. Between 19, Ed Ruscha produced eighteen small artist's books. ![]()
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