Twentysix gasoline stations
By: Michalis Pichler
Publisher: [Printed Matter, Inc.]
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780894390449
Subjects: Artists' books; Architectural photography; Service stations; Pictorial works
Other titles: 26 gasoline stations
Description: Twentysix Gasoline Stations is Michalis Pichler's homage to Ed Ruscha, who published his groundbreaking and highly influential Twentysix Gasoline Stations in 1962. Pichler's version offers a more modern update, examining twenty-six German gas stations all owned by the same company and all displaying the same signage and architectural elements. At first glance, all twenty-six images appear to depict the same pristine and brightly-colored generic structure. Only upon further examination, aided by Pichler's captions, does the reader get the full extent of the joke, which is punctuated by the book's final image: a disembodied hand holding an excerpt from Ruscha in which he explains "the eccentric stations were the ones I threw out".--Printed Matter website.
Notes: Kept in translucent wrappers.

"The eccentric stations were the first ones I threw out" is written on a photographed piece of paper, at the end of the book.

Based on Ed Ruscha's book, Twentysix gasoline stations, published in 1962.

"The same building photographed all over different locations in Brandenburg, Thuringen, Sachsen-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern."--Artist's website.