Markus Oberndorfer

Last May (which marked the 9th anniversary of my 360 VR take on the Sunset Strip), I had the pleasure of joining @garyregester.photog from Ed Ruscha Studio and @senonwill for the Los Feliz Blvd shoot—part of Ruscha’s and @gettymuseum L.A. Street Archive. Here are some of my analog shots from that day and the Los Feliz slide with me waiting for them to pick me up :D

A big thank you to Gary, Susan and Ed Ruscha Studio for the invitation, and to Senon for the smooth ride.

Ten years into my #revisited project—which I began 50 years after the release of Ruscha’s iconic Every Building on the Sunset Strip — it means a lot to get even more insights and see (also in terms of procedural parameters) that the plan I had back then has held true: to create an independent, original work in dialogue with Ruscha’s project, but without aiming to simply copy his method and apply it to other sujets.

In this sense, we may meet at the same place, but — even with his projects and list of street (re)documentations still ongoing — our focus is directed towards different questions: about our media landscape, about processes of collage, and about how we perceive the world around us. This has held true and has become apparent to me already through my concept and exhibition setting, and through a decade of work, but also through the way the photographic shots and sequences of the storefront plane that Ed Ruscha pursues for the L.A. Street Archive come into being. The details of that however, I won’t spill here.

Thanks again for making this possible and thanks also to @harvesttablepictures
And @wintherkh for dropping me off at the right coordinates, camping ⛺

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