
Every Building on the Sunset Strip
- Publisher
- Edward Ruscha
- Year
- 1966
- Specifications
- Accordion-fold book in a white board slipcase covered with reflective Mylar
7 x 5 1/2 in (17.9 x 14 cm) folded; unfolds to roughly 25 feet
First edition of 1,000 copies
Printer: Dick de Rusha, Los Angeles
Unfolding to nearly twenty-five feet, this book comprises a continuous photocollage capturing both sides of a mile-and-a-half stretch of a famous Los Angeles boulevard. To achieve the unbroken image, a motorized camera was mounted on the bed of a pickup truck. All that was after was the store-front plane, like a Western town -- paper in front, nothing behind it. The project later inspired the artist to document other streets across the city for more than fifty years.