Ed Ruscha, Crackers

Crackers

Ed Ruscha

Publisher
Heavy Industry Publications
Year
1969
Specifications
Softcover with printed dust jacket
8 5/8 x 5 7/8 in (22.2 x 15 cm)
240 pages, 115 illustrations
First edition of 1,650 copies with dust jacket (total edition 5,000)
Story by Mason Williams
Photographs by Ken Price, Joe Goode and the artist

Staged as a sequence of film stills, this book illustrates a short story involving an enormous salad, five gallons of dressing, a Skid Row hotel room, a hard-to-get woman, and a small box of saltine crackers. Played out by a cast of the artist's friends and photographed with the flat, sequential logic of a storyboard, the deliberately absurd plot was later adapted into a short film of its own.

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