1965
Original wrappers, with title lithographed in green on front and spine, 48 pp with 34 captioned black and white photographic illustrations. First edition limited to 700 copies.
Condition: Minor browning to edges of cover and page edges + minor surface blemishes to back cover, otherwise a very good copy. Missing glassine jacket.
7h x 5 1/2w in (17.78h x 13.97w cm)
$ 2,800
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During the 1960s and 1970s, Ed Ruscha created a series of 16 small, self-published books. The books were composed around a single artistic idea or concept that was expressed simply through photographs and minimal text. This straight forward approach reinvented the artist book and was the inspiration for what it is today. Some Los Angeles Apartments was Ruscha's third book. It featured a photographic survey of the subtle beauty of the post-war Southern California rental property construction boom. This book returned to the more varied page layouts of Twentysix Gasoline Stations, but like the two books before, the most common page spread contained a single photograph on the upper right-hand portion of the page.
