Ed Ruscha, the occasional photographer

The leading US artist Ed Ruscha, who is showing a series of new paintings at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill in London (Extremes and In-betweens, until 17 December), tells The Art Newspaper that he rarely takes photographs today, even though he was a trailblazer in the medium at the start of his career.His last major photography exhibition, In Focus: Ed Ruscha, was held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles in 2013. It included the slender, pocket-sized volumes that he began publishing in 1963 and his ext