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David Platzker on the art of Ed Ruscha

This week, the editors revisit a portfolio of photographs from Ed Ruscha published in Artforum’s Summer 2004 issue with an introduction from Scott Rothkopf. In the September issue, David Platzker traces the evolution of Ruscha’s art, which is now on view at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in “ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN.”Ed Ruscha claims that he never considered himself a “photographer with a capital P,” insisting that the pictures in Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963) or Various Small Fires and Milk (1964), many shot on road trips across the country, were, like the car he drove, mere...

THE DISTANCE from the Knox-Less service station in Oklahoma City to Bob’s Seaside Service, not so far from the Santa Monica Pier at the terminus of Route 66—both pictured in Ed Ruscha’s 1963 artist’s book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations—was about 1,400 miles. It’s a drive Ruscha has taken many times since he traveled it with Mason Williams in Ruscha’s lowered 1950 four-door Ford, with throaty Smitty Glasspack dual muffler, following their graduation from Oklahoma City’s Classen High School in 1956.1The trail from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles via Route 66 holds a mythic place withi...

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