Five or Sex Questions for BP Laval

“I personally cannot even “see” porn anymore. Perhaps I am desensitized, but I fail to adhere to the moralistic innuendo that is applied to a word like pornography.”

Ed Ruscha on Change in Los Angeles Today (2016)

Edward Ruscha is an American artist who has specialized in painting, drawing, photography, and books. Born in 1937, Ruscha moved to Los Angeles to attend school at Chouinard Art Institute in 1956. In the early 1960s, he contributed to the birth of “pop art” and his work was featured in the famed 1962 exhibition “New […]

Stacy Kranitz on Imagery in Appalachia

An interview with the Kentucky-born photographer Stacy Kranitz about the seven years she’s spent documenting life in rural Appalachia. Interview & editing by Zach Goldhammer Photography & narration by Stacy Kranitz

Roe Ethridge in Conversation with Kevin Moore

BFA Photography and Video and DEAR DAVE, magazine present artist Roe Ethridge discussing his recently published book Shelter Island (Mack Books) with Kevin Moore. The monograph features photographs from a summer vacation Ethridge took with his family to Long Island, where they rented an all-American kit house and discovered the relics of the previous owners. […]