Ed Ruscha has made a book about documenting these 26 gas stations. He took a journey from where he lived at the moment in LA to where he first grew up in Texas. This is an interesting way to show a personal journey through documenting each gasoline he comes across. I really like how each image is completely different to the next but still has this repetition element to the work. This has been produced into a book which is sequenced in order of the journey.
"Ruscha's books combined the literalness of early California pop art with a flat-footed photographic aesthetic informed by minimalist notions of repetitive sequence and seriality....Thirty years later, with a quarter of a century of mainstream artworld activity between, the aspect of shock-effect and humor has diminished somewhat. But in 1962 (sic) this work read against the photographic landscape of highly aestheticized image-making." Joanna Drucker[9]
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