Curriculum
oe Ethridge says his first loves were Lee Friedlander and Andy Warhol. “I’m a photographer, but I’m also an editor,” he has noted. “I’m a colorist. I’m a pictorialist. I’m a commercial photographer.” Ethridge’s images are irreverent amalgams of recirculated and new pictures, equal parts deadpan and evocative—and all the more resonant for their eclectic, Pop art nature. A veteran of the 2008 Whitney Biennial and the Museum of Modern, Ethridge has photographed women, flowers, seashells, Coke bottles, apples, pigeons, and the construction site of Goldman Sachs’s New York headquarters. For Curriculum, Ethridge chose to toggle between “counterpoint,” things that cut against the grain, and “meanwhile,” ideas that are under the radar.
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