Virginia Heckert is associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum and author of the bestselling Irving Penn: Small Trades.
"A slim but essential volume. . . . As such examples of mid-century
design disappear or fall into disrepair, the utilitarian clarity of
these images make a book like Some Los Angeles Apartments a
valuable document, and an unexpectedly moving one. What began as a
perhaps ironic concept has, with the passing years, taken on the
resonance of something lost to history."--Spectrum Culture
"An elaboration of Ruscha's 1965 book, providing a commentary on
and superior reproductions of the original black and white
photographs."--Form Magazine
"Concept preceding image is an approach which now dominates
contemporary photography, but it wasn't always so. Victoria
Heckert's book serves as a helpful history lesson."--Photo-Eye Blog
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