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Edward Ruscha

Real Estate Opportunities

Edward Ruscha

1970

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A signed first edition of Ruscha's last solo photobook to use the minimal "house style" made famous by Twentysix Gasoline Stations and other early works.

  • Edward Ruscha (American).
  • Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1970.
  • 48 pages.
  • 25 black and white photographic illustrations.
  • Part of an edition of 4,000 unnumbered copies.
  • Signed by Ruscha in pencil on front free endpaper. 
  • Bound in original white printed wrappers.


The 25 black and white photographs of Real Estate Opportunities frequently include "For Sale" signs, recalling Ruscha's early life as an aspiring commercial artist who "learned sign-painting techniques and painted many commercial signs, including For Sale signs" (Phillpot). Properties pictured, captioned with their addresses, include houses, residential lots and forlorn stretches of barren land whose only neighbors are the telephone poles and roads of southern California.

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Lacking glassine jacket. 

Minor signs of handling.

Dimensions

Height: 7 inches / 17.78 cm
Width: 5.5 inches / 13.97 cm

Feature(s)

First Edition, Signed

Language

English

Subject

Photographs, Art, Architecture, Modern first editions

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