Ed Ruscha – A Few Palm Trees (1971) – 1st Ed– Heavy Industry Publications

Ed Ruscha - A Few Palm Trees (1971) - 1st Ed- Heavy Industry Publications VG+ / Near Fine

Published in 1971, A Few Palm Trees is one of Ed Ruscha's iconic early artist books, continuing his groundbreaking use of deadpan serial photography and minimal text.

This first edition presents a sequence of photographic palm tree portraits, each isolated and treated with Ruscha's characteristic neutrality, transforming an everyday Southern California motif into a conceptual typology. As with Ruscha's most important books (Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots), the work operates simultaneously as documentation, sculpture, and idea.

Issued by Heavy Industry Publications, Hollywood, the book exemplifies Ruscha's radical rethinking of the artist book as an autonomous artwork rather than a traditional catalogue.

Details:

• Artist: Ed Ruscha

• Title: A Few Palm Trees

• Year: 1971

• Publisher: Heavy Industry Publications, Hollywood

• First edition

• Softcover

• Black-and-white photographs

Condition:

• Complete and intact

• Covers show some minor surface wear (see photos)

• Interior pages clean and unmarked

• Binding solid

A foundational conceptual photography book and an essential Ruscha title, increasingly scarce in first edition.