Tabuchi Eric

The photographs on the pages of Ed Ruscha's book Twentysix Gasoline Stations depict filling stations across the United States of America in the form of a stark, beautiful, and modern travel narrative. Inspired by Ruscha's seminal work, the Japanense-Danish photographer Eric Tabuchi-who describes his fondness for petrol stations by likening their logos to coats of arms-took the concept into new territory with his project, "Twentysix Abandoned Gasoline Stations," which focused on nonoperational stations in various states of decay and, in Tabuchi's words, "portrayed them as ruins of a bygone civilization."