Ed Ruscha Made Me Take This

Fifty-odd years ago Time magazine published a copy of one of Ed Ruscha's gas station paintings. It leapt off the page at me and made me look at it. Then I forgot about it for forty-odd years until I took up photography. I discovered then that that painting had been thriving in my unconscious and was influencing the photos I took. This photo is of course a long way away from Ruscha's painting -- it isn't a gas station, it has two perspectives instead of one, it's shot from above while the POV in Ruscha's painting was from below, and so on. The influence is seen -- at least to me, an entirely subjective judge, who has been wrong many, many times before -- in the concentration on converging lines and what I consider to be its hard-edge look. I know this was a largely self-indulgent digression but I had to explain the title, din I? Another homage to Ruscha in the PiP. Technical note: Taken with my arm in a sling. My elbow is still recuperating, but I was able to take this without bending it. ==================== In my self-absorption I forgot that it would be a good idea to post a link to the painting -- thanks to Sarah Paris who has provided a link below. And here it is here: www.moma.org/collection/works/76637 More tributes to photographers and painters: www.ipernity.com/doc/fitzgerald/album/1294982?with=45547580

...but I did. I like both his photographs and his hardedge paintings of gas stations. I don't have any perspective here so this must have been inspired by his photographs. Both the photos and the paintings are totally cool but in different ways. hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/sites/hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/files/styles/learning_to_look_full/public/l2l-modern-painting-full_0.jpg?itok=9X07cNkS More detail on black (click the photo to see). ====== More tributes: www.ipernity.com/doc/fitzgerald/album/1294982?with=45547580

Ed Ruscha seems the most likely inspiration for this. More tributes to painters and photographers: www.ipernity.com/doc/fitzgerald/album/1294982?with=45547580

This seems to have been inspired by Ed Ruscha. More tributes to painters and photographers: www.ipernity.com/doc/fitzgerald/album/1294982?with=45547580