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Gas and Glamour: Roadside Architecture in Los Angeles / Ashok Sinha
Books
FA.B119.2432
11.5 x 9.25 in
2020
Hardcover book of photography by Ashok Sinha. Includes text by Jack Esterson, Craig Kellogg, Sherri Littlefield, Ashok Sinha. Signed by the artist.
"I love cars and I love Los Angeles for being a city of cars. Over the last decade or so, I have been intrigued by L. A.’s love affair with the automobile, tracing back to a time when cars themselves were objects of beauty. Those cars are no longer on the streets today but the buildings from that era remain. As an architectural photographer, I wanted to capture L. A.’s car-culture-induced optimism and ambition reflected in polychromatic, star-spangled coffee shops, gas stations, and car washes, that once lured the gaze of passing motorists." -- artist statement