You don’t hear much about street photography anymore. There are lots of reasons why. One, hitherto unacknowledged, is that artist Ed Ruscha’s extraordinary photo books turned the genre upside down in ...

Working in painting, drawing, prints, photography, artist’s books, film, and installation—and currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York—Ruscha’s diverse ...

“I never aspired to be a photographer,” says artist Edward Ruscha. “To this day, I’m still not a photographer.” Yet here he is, in a tony Southern California gallery -- Gagosian in Beverly Hills -- ...

So, this is pretty awesome. Take any two points of road that have been mapped by Google Street View, and Hyperlapse will stitch together every photo taken between point A and point B into a ...

More than 200 works by artist Ed Ruscha are on exhibit at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. Light pours onto the word “quit” spelled out in cursive letters that appear to be molded from white ...

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre melds Pop Art iconography with the documentarian rigor of Conceptual Art. With a practice that spans drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and ...

The story of Ed Ruscha, the iconic 78-year-old, Los Angeles-based artist whose work defines a certain brand of sun-drenched California cool, could be told in a multitude of ways. “But there’s not time ...

There are not a lot of artists like Ed Ruscha anymore. The ones who move in measured steps that somehow never read as repetition but as resolution: increments toward poetic concision. That used to be ...

In 2013, 50 years after his first solo show and the publication of the groundbreaking art book Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Ed Ruscha chose the Harry Ransom Center as the home for his personal ...

If you’re familiar with contemporary American art, an image of a Standard Oil station may immediately bring to mind Ed Ruscha. But the image above is actually by artist Vik Muniz, and cleverly pays ...

In a New York Times article from 1972. bluntly titled "`I`m Not Really a Photographer,`" Ed Ruscha claimed he took up the practice only in order to make his books-among them, the now-seminal ...