Ruscha, Edward

Lot 2268 / Auktion 24

Ruscha, Edward

Photobücher - - Ruscha, Edward. Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass. Mit 10 ganzseitigen farbigen Abbildungen.Los Angeles, Ed Ruscha, 1968. 64 nn. Bl., davon 52 S. unbedruckt. 18 x 14 cm. Original-Kartonage mit Original-Pergaminumschlag (Rücken leicht gebräunt, Umschlag etwas fleckig und mit leichten Randläsuren).
Erste Ausgabe. - Engberg/Phillpot B8. - The open book 198. - Eins von 2400 Exemplaren. - "Yet it departs from his previous photographic publications (such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations 1963 and Some Los Angeles Apartments 1965) in that the images are printed in colour and that, individually and collectively, the ten photographs, with the broken glass at the end, hint at some kind of narrative. In this respect the photographs not only record aspects of the urban landscape but also engender emotional reactions. As the art historian Mary Richards has stated, the image of the broken glass 'leaves a feeling of rupture after the pools - glass being the last thing you would want to find under your feet when going for a swim'" (Mary Richards, Ed Ruscha, London 2008). - Guter Zustand. - Provenienz: Nachlass Rudolf Rieser.