Golden Dox Dog Breed Guide Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments. Los Angelesbased contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artists books, receiving widespread critical acclaim for more than half a century. Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and the beautiful, his photobooks of the 1960ssuch as Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Some Los Angeles Apartments, and Thirtyfour Parking Lotsare known for their deadpan cataloguing of the citys functional architecture. This publication features thirty eight Ruscha plates and an essay that traces the evolution of the artists thinking about his photographs initially as the means to the end of his self published photobooks and eventually as works of art in and of themselves. Virginia Heckert contextualizes Ruschas photographs within the history of photographic documentation of vernacular architecture, using examples by such important photographers as Carleton Watkins, Eugne Atget, and Walker Evans, as well as contemporary photographers, many of whom have acknowledged Ruscha as an influence in their own depiction of the built environment.