Every Buidling on the Sunset Strip

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Every building on the Sunset Strip, also a part of Ruscha’s series of homogenous books, depicts continuous shots of 2 ½ miles of the 24 mile boulevard. Pictures continue onto the next page to continue the panoramic effect. Patrick Painter Gallery explains how the photographs were made: “Ruscha re-worked the negatives of six of the images from his book Every Building on Sunset Strip. The artist then cut and painted directly on the negatives, resulting in photographs that have the appearance of a faded black-and-white film(1)”.