Various Small Fires and Milk
- Publisher
- Edward Ruscha
- Year
- 1964
- Specifications
- Softcover, white wrappers with glassine cover
7 x 5 3/8 in (17.9 x 13.9 cm)
48 pages, 16 plates
First edition of 3,000 copies
Printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, Los Angeles
A deadpan catalogue of small domestic fires -- a lighter, a match, a stove burner, a barbecue, a cigarette -- photographed one after another in the same flat, matter-of-fact manner. The sequence ends on an image that seems hard to reconcile with everything before it: simply a glass of milk, added almost as an afterthought to the title itself.