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Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments Pride and key facets of theVirginia Heckert Los Angelesbased contemporary artist Ed Ruscha is celebrated for his paintings, drawings, prints, and artists books, receiving widespread critical acclaim for more than half a century. Capturing the quintessential Los Angeles experience with its balance of the banal and the beautiful, his photobooks of the 1960ssuch as Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Some Los Angeles Apartments, and Thirtyfour Parking