Ed Ruscha, Records

Records

Ed Ruscha

Publisher
Heavy Industry Publications
Year
1971
Specifications
Red wrappers
7 x 5 3/8 in (17.7 x 13.9 cm)
72 pages, 60 illustrations
First edition of 2,000 copies
Photographs by Jerry McMillan

Thirty vinyl records pulled at random from the artist's own collection are photographed twice each, jacket and label, with no commentary on the music itself. Treated purely as physical objects to be catalogued rather than as sound to be evaluated, the selection's apparent randomness stands in for a kind of self-portrait made entirely of secondhand cultural artifacts.

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