About this artwork
This aerial shot turns a banal urban landscape into an abstract geometric design. Ruscha captured the empty Lockheed Air Terminal in Los Angeles early one Sunday morning in 1967 from a helicopter. From above this air terminal appears to be a decaying, abandoned urban space, covered in stains that mark the traces of human presence. In 1999, Ed Ruscha selected 30 images from his artist book ‘Thirtyfour Parking Lots’ 1967/1999 and reprinted them as the print portfolio ‘Parking Lot Series’ 1967/1999 of which this image is one. He said, “over the years I began to appreciate print quality and see my photographs as not necessarily reproductions for a book, but as having their own life as silver gelatine prints.”
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title:Lockheed Air Terminal, 2627 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank
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date created:1967/99
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materials:Gelatin silver print
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measurements:39.40 x 39.40 cm (framed: 56.50 x 56.50 x 4.50 cm)
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credit line:ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Lent by Artist Rooms Foundation 2011
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accession number:AL00246
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Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha
Ruscha was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up in Oklahoma and studied in Los Angeles. Ruscha's work is diverse and experimental. Since childhood he has been interested in commercial art, in the form of advertising, comic books and magazines. This led to his first paintings featuring words,...