Edited and with an Essay by Sylvia Wolf.

"Published to accompany the exhibition In Focus: Ed Ruscha, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from April 9 to September 29, 2013, this book focuses on Ruscha's photographic work, specifically the thirty-eight images he made for his 1965 photobook Some Los Angeles Apartments"--Provided by publisher.

Schwartz examines Ruscha's diverse body of work, including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, books, and films, and discusses his relationship with other artists with whom he sparked the movement known as West Coast pop.

A collection of photographic prints documenting Hollywood Boulevard first in July 1973 and later in June 2004. Same type of camera equipment were used to re-photograph the street. The panoramic images in black and white from 1973 run parallel to 2004 colored version - contrasting the changes over three decades.

This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition PICTURING ED: JERRY MCMILLAN'S PHOTOGRAPHS OF ED RUSCHA 1958-1972 at Craig Krull Gallery from May 22-June 26, 2004. The exhibition included forty-seven vintage photographic images of Edward Ruscha taken over the years by his good friend (and fellow Oklahoma City to L.A. transplant) Jerry McMillan. The catalogue is trimmed to the size of one of Ruscha's self published artist's books of the sixties and seventies and it contains an abundance of sweet & sexy pictures of Ed the artist, friend, husband, and dad.

"Continuing his investigation of the Los Angeles vernacular landscape, "Thirtyfour Parking Lots" features aerial photographs of (mostly) empty parking lots adjacent to structures ranging from the iconic (then-new Dodger Stadium, The Hollywood Bowl) to the ordinary (retail stores and office buildings). The series' bird's-eye perspective reveals not only the distinctive, but often unnoticed layout and painted markings of these lots, but also the oil stains and other traces of their users."

"Ed Ruscha's diverse and highly influential work of the past four decades resists easy categorization. His straightforward depiction of prosaic subjects taken from American popular culture has earned him a reputation as a Pop artist, while his interest in language and typography has aligned him with certain trends in Conceptual art. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1937 and raised in Oklahoma, Ruscha moved in 1956 to Los Angeles, where he studied fine and graphic arts at Chouinard (now CalArts). This book, published to accompany the first museum retrpprestive of Ruscha's original works on paper, highlights over two hundred drawings whose subjects range from the depiction of vernacular objects, trademarks, gas stations, and apartment buildings to renderings of words and phrases in countless stylistic variations. His unusual media, including fruit and vegetable juices, gunpowder, blood, and tobacco juice, further attest to the invention and ingenuity of this major American artist." - inside back cover.