Ed Ruscha's "Some Los Angeles Apartments; Nine Swimming Pools; etc." (1965) is a seminal conceptual artwork that documents ordinary Southern California residential architecture through a series of straightforward photographs presented in book form. The work exemplifies Ruscha's pioneering approach to treating photography and typography as fine art media, treating mundane subject matter with the same seriousness as traditional fine art subjects. By cataloging vernacular buildings and landscape features with deadpan objectivity, Ruscha anticipated key concerns of conceptual and institutional critique that would dominate contemporary art practice.