Tracing the line: art and photography in the age of contact

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Man Ray and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy transformed photography into an experimental art form concerned with line yet not imitative of drawing. Man Ray created the technique of solarization, a cameraless photography using light exposure. Moholy sought to draw with light, creating photograms. Both men followed independent yet parallel courses of discovery, with Moholy working from the Bauhaus in Germany and Man Ray located in his Paris studio.

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Conservation of matter: Robert Rauschenberg's art of acceptance

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Robert Rauschenberg's collage method of photography is a way of incorporating as much of life as possible into one artwork, to express his acceptance and love of life. He developed his experimental art at Black Mountain College, both in painting and photography. He reclaims discarded objects for his sculptures, similar to his inclusion of images in his paintings and photos. He calls the collage method 'conservation of matter.'

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Collapsing hierarchies: photography and contemporary art

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Variation in modern photography crosses the boundaries with other forms of art such as drawing. Photographers who make use of drawing in their photographs include Robert Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Chuck Close, David Hockney and Andy Warhol. The boundary crossing of photography shows that the modern aesthetic of art is economic, with a give-and-take exchange between two parties, or types of art.

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