Chas Ray Krider photographs are part of a tradition of erotic art that employs exaggeration, mystery and the guilty pleasures of voyeurism. His photographs are about the forms employed in narrative based erotic art. Chas Ray’s work is widely exhibited and published, including three solo book, Motel Fetish by TASCHEN in 2002, 2nd edition 2012, Do Not Disturb by La Musardine of Paris, 2007, and Dirty Rendezvous by Goliath, 2014. Hi Ray, where are you right now? And what do you see from there? Could you describe for us the background of this interview? At the moment, I’m sitting at the dinning room table with my laptop. On the wall directly in front hangs a collection of dog paintings. My wife collects dog theme paintings by untrained, self-taught and outsider artists. She has close to a hundred paintings in her collection. There are twelve painting on this wall hung salon style, plus two painting we commissioned, one of our late dog Lulu and one of our current dog Elvis (Elvis has neurological twitch in his rear legs, hence the name, he’s shakin’ it up). Do you know how many copies of your most successful book, Motel Fetish, have been sold? [...]
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