I bought this book at LACMA when I attended the Ruscha Then/Now exhibit. After reading it i really wish i’d seen the show it chronicles at the Getty focused on Ruscha’s photos of Los Angeles apartment buildings. This book is one of many in which Ruscha captures  the quintessential Los Angeles experience—this book chronicles the Los Angeles experience by balancing the banal and the beautiful as represented by apartment buildings photographed by Ruscha. It features a number of Ruscha photos and an essay that traces the evolution of the artist's thinking about his photographs initially as the means to the end of his self-published photobooks and eventually as works of art in and of themselves. The author  places Ruscha's photographs within the history of photographic documentation of vernacular architecture focused on Los Angeles.  highly interesting.