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We talk a lot about Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip—the photographs, the accordion-fold construction, the concept, and its place among the great artist’s books of the twentieth century.

What we don’t talk about much is the silver slipcase it came in. My book remains remarkably clean. My slipcase is a mess. The adhesive has failed, the silver-wrapped construction is coming apart, and apparently I’m not alone. It’s simply one of those peculiar realities of owning a nearly sixty-year-old book—and something you rarely see in the beautiful photographs of it.

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Yesterday I shared Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip. Here’s another Los Angeles book that seems like a natural follow-up: Edgar Arceneaux’s 107th Street Watts. Arceneaux revisits Ruscha’s idea from an entirely different Los Angeles—photographing the buildings along 107th Street in Watts.

This copy of the Edgar Arceneaux book 107th Street Watts is currently available for sale.

 

 

 

 

Every once in a while I’m going to pull something off the shelves and show it off here. No real agenda, and not necessarily anything for sale—just books, photographs and ephemera I like having around.

This time it’s my copy of Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip, published in 1966.