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Twentysix Gasoline Stations is the first artist's book by the American pop artist Ed Ruscha. Published in April 1963 [1] on his own imprint National Excelsior Press, [2] it is often considered to be the first modern artist's book, [3] and has become famous as a precursor and a major influence on the emerging artist's book culture ...
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Twentysix Gasoline Stations is a 1963 publication of black and white photographs of petrol stations along the highway between Los Angeles and Oklahoma City. The book is a seminal example of Ruscha's photographic art and a commentary on the American landscape and culture. Learn more about its history, design and significance at Tate.
Title: Twentysix Gasoline Stations. Artist: Edward Ruscha (American, born Omaha, Nebraska, 1937) Date: 1963. Medium: Black offset printing. Dimensions: 7 1/16 × 5 1/2 × 3/16 in. (17.9 × 14 × 0.5 cm) Classification: Books. Credit Line: Stewart S. MacDermott Fund, 1970. Accession Number: 1970.590.6
Because the contents of Edward Ruscha’s book were exactly as advertised: twenty-six blunt photographs of gasoline stations with captions noting their location. The first was Bob’s Service in Los Angeles, the last a Fina station in Groom, Texas.
Edward Ruscha Twentysix Gasoline Stations 1963, printed 1969. Not on view. Inspired in part by the “sound of the number ‘26,’” Ruscha gathered twenty-six images of gasoline stations to populate his first artist’s book.
Twenty Six Gasoline Stations was the first of seventeen books that Ruscha made throughout the 1960s and 70s. These books are characterised by their use of serial photography, a wry sense of humour and use of small amounts of text.
His fondness for “the sound of the number 26” 3 led to the conceptualization of his first artist’s book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations. Its title dictated its straightforward premise: 26 snapshots of gasoline stations encountered while on the road between Los Angeles and his hometown of Oklahoma City.
