Since the 1960s, Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip has hosted a
kaleidoscope of custom-built billboards. They’ve been labeled variously
as “sky trash” and art. An architecture critic once called a 70-foot
Marlboro Man “one of the most effective landmarks in the confusing
landscape of our city.” Timeline put together a photographic field trip to the Sunset Strip’s last 50 years of billboard advertising.
The Fall of Icarus, made in Italy in the late sixteenth century. A cameo (agate, onyx) with a gold frame. 2.7 x 2.4cm (a square inch). Some of the waves are less than 1mm.
