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scenarios or schedules and visually as photo- A NOTE ON PROCESS ABBREVIATION screens in each work, repeating them only in
graphs. The record of one of Allen Kaprow's Abstract painting has many ways of achieving other works. q
Happenings is a form of completion. It is the twentieth-century dream of an instant,
necessary to differentiate these uses of photo- unrevised, all-at-once art form. There has Camera, 4, 1958.
graphs by artists from other approaches. The been a steady sequence of process-abbrevia- 2 Letter to Multiples, 1969.
3 Artforum, December, 1969.
present title 'Artists & Photographs' has a tion, compressing and reducing in number
4 Land Art, Fernsehgalerie Berlin 1969.
verbal echo of, for instance, 'The Painter and the stages that go to make up a work of art. 5 The catalogue includes a history of artists using photos
the Photograph' (University of New Mexico, Staining and high-speed calligraphy, for by Van Deren Coke.
1964) which is a study of photography as a instance, have a directness to which figura- 6 Studio International, December 1969. Rauschenberg is
transmitter of information for the use of tive art has little access. One of the few ways referring to lithography, but in terms of assimilating
photographic impressions the medium resembles silk-
figurative painters.5 'The Photographic Image' is in the use of photographic images printed
screen printing.
(Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1966) on silkscreens; not only is there an immediate
was divided between artists who imprinted delivery of a grainy, convincing image to the
photographs in paintings (see below) or who canvas, as the screen is pressed down and
copied photographs, less as an aid to illusion painted on the back, but the screen can be
than as a play with the channel characteristics used again. Both technique and image are
of the medium. (In the work of Richard immediate. If 'a print is the widow of the
Artschwager, Malcolm Morley, and Joseph stone', to quote Robert Rauschenberg,6 then
Raffael the subject is frequently the photo- a photograph is the twin of an event. Andy
graph itself rather than what the photograph Warhol's method is the repetition of the
5
depicts.) 'Paintings from the Photo' (Riverside single image within each work, varying it by Joseph Kosuth
Museum, 1969-70) combined both realist and nonchalant registering and impatient inking; Page from Notebook on Water 1965/6
post-Pop usages. Rauschenberg's way is to cluster different Collected photostats, photographs, notes (15 in all)
c.9 x 1 1 in.