Edward Ruscha / Nine Swimming Pools and A Broken Glass
s.l. (Los Angeles), Edward Ruscha [G.R. Huttner Lithography - Burbank, California], 1968, 17,7x14 cm., white printed wrappers with black titles in the fragile clear glassine protective overlay, pp. [64], title in black on a white background, title page titled in light blue on a white background, 10 photographic plates printed in offset in 4 colors (9 images of swimming pools and 1 of a broken glass). All other pages are blank. First book in which Ruscha uses color photography. First edition of 2.400 unnumbered copies. [Bibliography Engberg - Phillpot 1999: volume II, B 8, pag. 124].
s.l. (Los Angeles), Edward Ruscha [G.R. Huttner Lithography - Burbank, California], 1968, 17,7x14 cm., white printed wrappers with black titles in the fragile clear glassine protective overlay, pp. [64], title in black on a white background, title page titled in light blue on a white background, 10 photographic plates printed in offset in 4 colors (9 images of swimming pools and 1 of a broken glass). All other pages are blank. First book in which Ruscha uses color photography. First edition of 2.400 unnumbered copies. [Bibliography Engberg - Phillpot 1999: volume II, B 8, pag. 124].
s.l. (Los Angeles), Edward Ruscha [G.R. Huttner Lithography - Burbank, California], 1968, 17,7x14 cm., white printed wrappers with black titles in the fragile clear glassine protective overlay, pp. [64], title in black on a white background, title page titled in light blue on a white background, 10 photographic plates printed in offset in 4 colors (9 images of swimming pools and 1 of a broken glass). All other pages are blank. First book in which Ruscha uses color photography. First edition of 2.400 unnumbered copies. [Bibliography Engberg - Phillpot 1999: volume II, B 8, pag. 124].
“Nine Swimming Pools is one of Ruscha’s strangest in terms of one’s expectations of a book. Most of the pages are blank. And then there is the punch line, the broken drinking glass. This surprising non sequitur drags one into the depths of these true blue pools, which were mostly photographed around Las Vegas, to question the apparently idyllic scenes.” (Engberg - Phillpot)
