ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG PHOTOGRAPHS. 1949

Robert Rauschenberg's engagement with photography began in the late 1940s under the tutelage of Aaron Siskind and Hazel Larsen Arche r at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Their combined influence was so great that for a time Rauschenberg was unsure whether to pursue painting or photography as a career. Instead he chose both, and found ways to fold photography into his Combines, maintai ned a practice of photographing friends and family, documented the evolution of works and occasionally dramatized them by inserting himself i...[Read more]