Every Building on the Sunset Strip

<p><em>Every Building on the Sunset Strip</em> is a book of photographs that depicts every building for more than a mile of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. When its accordion-style binding is fully expanded, the book extends to nearly 25 feet. Edward Ruscha took the photographs with an automatic camera from a moving car. The images were then compiled in the order in which they were taken and labeled with their corresponding street numbers. <em>Every Building on the Sunset Strip</em> was published as a part of a series of artist’s books in which Ruscha highlighted aspects of everyday life. The accordion-like folded structure disrupts the flatness of the actual photographs and encourages an encounter with the book that feels atypically physical and cinematic.</p>