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Every Building on the Sunset Strip

Artist Edward Ruscha (American, born 1937)

CultureAmerican

Date1966

MediumOffset lithograph on paper, folded and glued Artist's book

Dimensionscase: 7 5/16 × 5 13/16 × 9/16 in. (18.6 × 14.8 × 1.4 cm)

PortfolioFirst edition, self-published, printed by Dick de Ruscha in Los Angeles (self-printed), one of 1,000 copies

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number2017.28.2

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 227

DescriptionThis artist's book features two continuous photographic views of the mile and a half section of this landmark stretch of the Sunset Strip, one for each side of city's landmark thoroughfare.
Label TextEdward Ruscha American, b. 1937 Every Building on the Sunset Strip, 1966 Offset lithograph on paper, folded and glued Artist’s book, first edition, self-published This book depicts a continuous series of photographs of LA’s Sunset Strip. The artist Ed Rusha created the images by mounting a motorized Nikon camera to the bed of a pickup truck, allowing him to capture regular images while driving down one side of the road and then the other. The continuous imagery exposes the Strip, known for its storied nightlife, to the bright California daylight, but it does so without commentary—like an anthropological study of the urban setting. The series also suggests an unusual relationship with time. Presented as a group, the book seems to capture a moment, when in fact time was ticking away as Ruscha drove by. Museum purchase 2017.28.2 Exhibition History"Photographs Take Time: Pictures from the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, April 6 - August 26, 2018.