Video » Ed Ruscha's Hollywood Boulevard, 1973 and 2002

Artist Ed Ruscha's fascination with the vernacular architecture of L.A.'s eclectic neighborhoods began over 50 years ago and endures to this day. In the 1960s, Ruscha started documenting the building facades along the city's major boulevards by taking continuous photographs with a 35 mm camera mounted to a moving vehicle. His first related publication,(1966), captures an extensive stretch of the famous thoroughfare. The Streets of Los Angeles Archive, now preserved at the Getty Research Institute, documents Ruscha's comprehensive views of avenues throughout the region, including the iconic Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard.See more works by this artist in the exhibition In Focus: Ed Ruscha »