Potato

<p>Ed Ruscha’s simple composition depicts a humble potato casting a delicate shadow onto a smooth surface. Created early in his career, this photograph shows his developing interest in elevating ordinary objects to the status of high art.</p> <p>Throughout his career Ruscha has also aimed to create neutral images, or as he once put it, images that followed “a non-statement with a no-style.” This is especially true for the photobooks he created in the 1960s and ’70s, such as Various Small Fires and Milk, on view in a case in this gallery.</p>