Ed Ruscha self-published a number of conceptual books during the 1960s and 1970s consisting of prosaic collections of his own photographic images of the American landscape. Among the most famous are his Twenty six Gasoline Stations (1963), Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966), and Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles (1967). The latter book consisted of aerial photographs of various lots around Los Angeles, shot in the early morning by professional photographer Art Alanis before they filled up with cars. Starting in the late 1990s Ruscha revisited his earlier negatives and began producing new portfolios of photographic enlargements from some of these book projects, including this series of 30 parking lots. Removed from their original function as book illustrations, enlarged, matted, framed, and arranged on the wall in a grid, Ruscha's parking lots are fully transformed into abstract art objects.