{"product_id":"9781606069523","title":"Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles : Artist, Image, Archive, City by Emily Pugh","description":"In  1966, Ed Ruscha drove a car rigged with a motorized camera to  capture Los Angeles' most iconic street: Sunset Boulevard. Navigating the  boulevard, he created a time capsule of its famed facades, beginning an  almost sixty-year-long commitment to documenting the changing urban landscape  of postwar Los Angeles. The Streets of Los Angeles Project that comprises  these photographs is likely the most comprehensive artistic record of any  city, with over 900,000 images of major thoroughfares. Ruscha's photographs  constitute an unparalleled visual chronicle of some of Los Angeles's most  iconic sites while also capturing the tapestry of everyday life-popular music  venues, neighborhood restaurants, and billboards promoting Hollywood's latest  blockbusters.           In this volume, scholars from disciplines such as urban planning, cultural geography,  architecture, art history, and musicology explore the Streets of Los Angeles  Archive as a rich repository for analyzing Ruscha's practice and the city's visual  culture. Using his  photographs and dynamic data visualizations, the authors consider what it means  to interpret an archive mostly accessible through digital technologies and  demonstrate how histories of art have been indelibly reshaped since the  advent of the information age in the 1960s.    This publication was created using Quire (TM), a multiformat publishingtool from Getty. The free online edition of this open-access publication isavailable at getty.edu\/publications\/scores\/ and includes video, datavisualizations, and zoomable illustrations. Free PDF and EPUB downloads of the book are also available.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305144234357,"sku":"9781606069523","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781606069523.jpg?v=1762796901","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781606069523","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}