872 While documenting Los Angeles streets, Ruscha amassed an extensive archive that details the project's costs, materials used, and streets photographed. Notebooks from 1973, 1995, and 1997 record the locations and times Ruscha and his team started and stopped shooting. To maintain continuity of lighting and street conditions, they photographed early in the morning, when there was less traffic and fewer people. Ruscha also used the notebooks to detail his process for creating what he described as "motorized photographs." A sketch showing his setup-a camera mounted on a tripod, which is grounded by sandbags-includes instructions for how to shoot from the bed of his Datsun pickup truck.
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