"Rauschenberg turns out to have been a natural, breezily brilliant
with a camera, never more so than when shooting his circle of
artist friends."--Jerry Saltz "New York Magazine"
"Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs 1949-1962" (Shirmer/Mosel, $75)
is a thorough (though not exhaustive) collection; many of these
photographs were personally permitted at one point or another, by
the artist, to be published or displayed. As such, the catalog
offers a unique and focused view from the eye of a tremendously
energenic and industrious artist, whose purview seemed to exclude
nothing.--Matt Mccann "T: The New York Times Style Magazine"
Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs 1949 - 1962 (D.A.P) comes as
something of a surprise, if not a revelation. Although his
photographs are nowhere near as original as his art, they're solid
examples of a midcentury American style that zeroed in on the
vernacular, the ephemeral, and the everyday.--Vince Aletti
"Photograph Magazine"
The ordinary, spontaneous moments in Rauschenberg's pictures are
observed with a focused eye and lyric purity that one also sees in
the photographs of Allen Ginsberg or Alfred Stieglitz. On the cover
is a photographic self-portrait in which Rauschenberg incorporates
his own reflection in a mirror holding a camera, framed within one
of his combines. "I've never stopped being a photographer," he
said.--Philip Gefter "The Photobook Review"
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