- 26 gas stations
- some los angles apartments
- every building on the sunset strip
- thirty four parking lots in los angeles
- nine swimming pools and a broken glass
- real estate oppurtunities (sp)
"i dont even look at it as photography, they are just images to fill a book. "
"they are a collection of facts; a collection of readymades" -
two ed ruscha koans, qouted by hal foster lrb 9/21
some other thots:
the 20 foot by 10 feet rosenquist murrals, the ugly supertech ones (oh to have a picture) compared to the tiny, hidden collages, that work as better and more effiecnet socio--poltical critque ? (hidden because they were ephemreal, dirty, small, studies. recovered as an academic look and see excercise in the guise of a big catalouge, and a big show--whitney, mid 90s, as a reward for living in obscurity.) (ruscha in fact is getting the exact same treatment)
anon. fotos, found fotos, news fotos and porn fotos and underground comicy fotos, crawling out of the woodwork as a mark of authenticity, ignoring the sex and blood and concenrating on the art of the thing...fotos as a touchstone of paraphillia, the twinning of paraphillia and paralitertures (sp) (ie weegee as high art, in musuems, being published as high art; means that what he had to say about news is lost, and we forget how he composed his shots)
whats the aesthetic and moral (ethical) difference b/w eagleston and a family snap (eagleston was used as a family snap to illustrate a seadris essay in gq, b/c to see seadrises actual family would make things too authentic)
im sorry, im rambling, im just t rying to work out an essay
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