Ed Ruscha - Streets of Los Angeles

Historians, urbanists and musicologists explore Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles archive, a decades-long photographic record of every building on the city's major thoroughfares.

See how one artist's obsessive street photography became a time machine for a changing Los Angeles.

This video, produced in collaboration with MoMA’s exhibition ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, brings together art and architectural historians, urbanists, and musicologists to explore Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles archive.

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