Exploring Ed Ruscha's Archive. 12 sunsets. Ed Ruscha’s photographs of the iconic Los Angeles street. Link
Ed Ruscha’s photographs of the iconic Los Angeles street
“Ed Ruscha’s engagement with the Los Angeles cityscape is profound. Since the mid-1960s he has taken more than a half-million photographs of the streets of Los Angeles, which have been at Getty Research Institute since 2012,” said Mary Miller, director of the Getty Research Institute. “We aim to activate this rich material and make it widely accessible and appealing to anyone interested in art or the recent history of this great city. The vast majority of these photographs have never been seen before, and making them accessible opens up new avenues for inquiry about one of the most significant artists of the postwar period, as well as a major part of Los Angeles history.”
The website, designed by Stamen Design
working with Getty Digital, allows users to “drive” down Sunset
Boulevard in 12 different years between 1965 and 2007, as well as to
view, search, and compare the more than 65,000 photographs of this key
urban artery.