Motorized Photographs Of Sunset Blvd. And Other L.A. Streets • Discoverology

Motorized Photographs Of Sunset Blvd. And Other L.A. Streets

Commissioned by The Getty Museum to the painter, draftsman, photographer, and bookmaker, Ed Ruscha. Utilizing The Getty Research Institute’s preservation and digitization of over a million images from Ed’s Streets of Los Angeles photo series, and excerpts from Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road.”

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