
Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass
- 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.