Sunday, 27 January 2013

ED RUSHCA

TWO GREAT ARTISTS HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY WORDS...
USE WORDS TO TALK ABOUT WORDS.







from FOAM magazine:

03 from the series 'Then & Now' © Ed Ruscha

"Issue 31/ref./ ED RUSHCA
then and now...
Viewing Then and Now is like reading a historical timeline or a street map. In 1973, he photographed every building along a six-and-a-half-mile stretch of Hollywood Boulevard, from Sunset Plaza Drive in the East to HIllhurst Avenue in the West. He made contact sheets of the rolls of films and put them away in a box. Thirty-one years later, in 2004, he photographed the same route again, only this time with colour film. The filmstrips put us in motion, as if we are in the passenger seat of the car looking outside the side window." 




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