Every Building on the Sunset Strip

Every Building on the Sunset Strip 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. Every Building on the Sunset Strip 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.