Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-ruscha-1882" aria-label="More by Edward Ruscha" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Ruscha</a>
Good Year Tires 6610 Laurel Canyon North Hollywood
ARTIST ROOMS 
Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Lent by Artist Rooms Foundation 2011
aerial view
architecture
banality
car
car park
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
classification
countries and continents
desolation
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
garage
garden
garden structures
house
industrial
irony
lifestyle and culture
Los Angeles, Hollywood, Laurel Canyon
photographic
places
public and municipal
residential
road
sequence
shop
society
townscapes / man-made features
transport: land
universal concepts
urban environment
USA, California
<p>This aerial shot turns an urban landscape into an abstract geometric design. Ruscha captured empty Los Angeles car parks from a helicopter early one Sunday morning in 1967, before any cars had arrived. From above the city appears silent and lifeless. Ruscha brought the images together into an artist’s book, <span>Thirtyfour Parking Lots</span> 1967. In 1999 he returned to the series, presenting the images as a photographic portfolio. He said, ‘over the years I began to appreciate print quality and see my photographs as not necessarily reproductions for a book, but as having their own life as silver gelatin prints.’</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2019</em></p>
paper print photograph gelatin silver
25 September 2014 – 17 May 2015
2015-05-17
25 September 2014 – 11 January 2015
2015-01-11
2014-09-25
Barbican Art Gallery (London, UK)
2014-09-25
Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age
Loan-out
29 April 2017 – 29 April 2018
2018-04-29
29 April 2017 – 29 April 2018
2018-04-29
2017-04-29
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh, UK)
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/
2017-04-29
ARTIST ROOMS Ed Ruscha
Collection based display
22 July 2019 – 18 July 2021
2021-07-18
22 July 2019 – 18 July 2021
2021-07-18
2019-07-22
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2019-07-22
AR Ed Ruscha
Collection based display
Good Year Tires, 6610 Laurel Canyon, North Hollywood
unconfirmed, image: 394 × 394 mm
unconfirmed, support: 610 × 610 mm
Frame: 565 × 565 × 45 mm
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Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Lent by Artist Rooms Foundation 2011
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<p>This aerial shot turns an urban landscape into an abstract geometric design. Ruscha captured empty Los Angeles car parks from a helicopter early one Sunday morning in 1967, before any cars had arrived. From above the city appears silent and lifeless. Ruscha brought the images together into an artist’s book, <i>Thirtyfour Parking Lots</i> 1967. In 1999 he returned to the series, presenting the images as a photographic portfolio. He said, ‘over the years I began to appreciate print quality and see my photographs as not necessarily reproductions for a book, but as having their own life as silver gelatin prints.’</p>
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aerial view architecture banality car car park cities, towns, villages (non-UK) classification countries and continents desolation emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities garage garden garden structures house industrial irony lifestyle and culture Los Angeles, Hollywood, Laurel Canyon photographic places public and municipal residential road sequence shop society townscapes / man-made features transport: land universal concepts urban environment USA, California