Description
Ed Ruscha's accordion-fold artist book (1966) documenting every building on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles through continuous photography. Shot from a pickup truck using a motorized Nikon camera mounted on a tripod, Ruscha captured a continuous photograph of 1.5 miles of Sunset Boulevard on both sides, published as an accordion-fold book measuring about 25 feet long when fully unfolded. The deadpan, systematic documentation — with no artistic framing or selective editing — pioneered conceptual photography and anticipated the comprehensive street-level imaging of Google Street View by four decades. Part of Ruscha's series of artist books alongside "Twentysix Gasoline Stations" (1963) and "Some Los Angeles Apartments" (1965). The Getty Research Institute holds the original negatives.
