Twentythree Gasoline Stations is an artist booklet designed and published by Stefan Frutiger containing 24 color photographs of 23 different gas stations in the Ticino, the southern region of Switzerland, bordering Italy.

Edition is numbered, signed and limited to 100 booklets.

Subtitle: «Turismo del carburante» (fuel tourism)

Product details: 8.5"x11" saddle stitched booklet, 25 spreads, 24 color photographs (7"x5.25").

ISBN: 979-8-9892075-0-3

Publication: October 2023. Orders are now shipping.

In 2022, «Turismo del carburante», fuel tourism decreased by 90% due to lower gasoline prices in Italy, leaving more than twenty gas stations on the Swiss side of the border with Italy at risk of closure. Gas stations were photographed on a ten-kilometer stretch along the Tresa River, between the municipalities of Tresa and Magliaso.

10% of sales will be donated to a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in California that teaches art and photography to high-school students.

📸 Shot on Kodak Portra 400 film with a medium format film camera (120 film). Locally designed and printed in San Diego, California ❤️ Typography with Amazon Ember font.

© Copyright 2023 by Stefan Frutiger.

The cover design pays homage to Edward Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations from 1963. Tate considers Ruscha’s books seminal in the history of artist books.