Ed Ruscha, Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass

Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass

Ed Ruscha

Publisher
Edward Ruscha
Year
1968
Specifications
Softcover, glassine cover
7 x 5 1/2 in (17.8 x 14 cm)
64 pages, 9 color plates
First edition of 2,400 copies
Printer: Blair Litho, Los Angeles

Nine placid, unpopulated swimming pools are presented one to a spread in flat color, evenly lit and devoid of bathers, followed at the very end by a single image of a shattered drinking glass on a hard floor. The abrupt shift from calm, static water to sudden breakage reframes the preceding sequence, turning an ordinary suburban amenity into a quiet meditation on stillness interrupted.

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