Various Studios & Homes Inhabited by Ed Ruscha
Case-bound book
205 x 262 mm
'I like the anonymity of photographs,' he says, 'but you can never achieve it. Years from now people will know that they were done in the 1960s.'1
'Above all, the photographs I use are not "arty" in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as a fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.'2
1 Ed Ruscha interviewed by David Bourdon. Originally published in Art News, v. 71, April 1972.
2 Ed Ruscha interviewed by John Coplans. Originally published in Artforum, v. 5, February 1965.