| Names: | | | Dates: | 1937, 16 December - | | Born: | US, NE, Omaha | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male |
American painter and photographer.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Employing a wry taxonomical approach to the photographic documentation of West-Coast vernacular structures, Ruscha’s work from the 1960s and 1970s embraces photography in the service of conceptual art. Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, and Thirty-Four Parking Lots in Los Angeles are among his commercially produced and widely influential books. A painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, Ruscha combines Dadaist sensibilities, articulate painting style, and fascination with language into dreamily elusive wordscapes: a poetic blend of word and image that is both critique and celebration of contemporary culture.
(Author: Garie Waltzer - Photographer and consultant)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
          
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Ruscha, Ed, 1962, Twentysix Gasoline Stations [LL_REF:2400 *B]
Ruscha, Ed, 1968, Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass, (Los Angeles, California: Self-published, Printed by Blair Litho) [LL_REF:2390 *B]
Ruscha, Ed, 1969, Crackers [LL_REF:2392 *B]
Ruscha, Ed, 1970, Babycakes with Weights, ([California]: Edward Ruscha) [LL_REF:2393 *B]
Ruscha, Ed, 1970, Some Los Angeles Apartments [2nd edition] [LL_REF:2394 *B]
Ruscha, Ed, 1970, Various Small Fires [LL_REF:2395 *B]
Ruscha, Ed, 1971, Records, (Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications, Printed by G.R. Huttner Lithography) [LL_REF:2397 *B]
Ruscha, Ed, 1971, Royal Road Test [LL_REF:2396 *B *O]
Ruscha, Ed, 1990, Edward Ruscha: Los Angeles Apartments [LL_REF:2398 *B]
Ruscha, Ed & Bengston, Billy Al, 1968, Business Cards, (Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications; Printed by Vaughan Printing Co.) [LL_REF:2391 *B]
Ruscha, Edward, 1965, Some Los Angeles Apartments, (Los Angeles: Anderson, Ritchie & Simon) [LL_REF:1543]
Ruscha, Edward, 1966, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, (Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha) [LL_REF:1541]
Ruscha, Edward, 1999, Heaven - Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999 - Catalogue Raisonne [LL_REF:2399 *B]
Ruscha, Edward, 2004, Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) [Edited by Alexander Schwartz.] [LL_REF:1542]
Wolf, Sylvia, 2004, Ed Ruscha and Photography, (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl Verlag) [LL_REF:891]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
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