Then he started exploring photography in earnest.
"Robert Rauschenberg and Photography," at Pace/MacGill Gallery through Nov. 2, explores photography's role at the center of his work.
Avedon began to explore photography on his own at age 10 and was immediately drawn to portraiture.
Four years later he joined the Lexington Camera Club, where he met American curator, writer, and photographer Van Deren Coke, who encouraged him to explore photography for its expressive possibilities.
(Rosenberg) 'Snap Noir: Snapshot Stories From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson' (closes on Wednesday) The 51 anonymous snapshots in this exhibition, arranged in six groupings, explore photography as a private act while reflecting an impeccable eye.
Using stills from home movies along with lush, colored-saturated pictures he took of his parents, the resulting book, "Pictures From Home," was a deeply personal document but one that continued Mr. Sultan's lifelong mission of exploring photography's fictions.
His fascinaton with cinema, particularly the work of experimenters like Germaine Dulac, Joris Ivens, Walter Ruttman, Man Ray and Luis Buñuel, was piqued while he was studying architecture and exploring photography in Prague.
The Barbican also announced an Ibsen season, an art show called Constructing Worlds that will explore photography and architecture, and residencies by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic and the Jazz at Lincoln Center orchestra.
Highly influenced by the West Coast brand of Conceptualism then percolating out of places like the California Institute of the Arts, both men were interested, as Mr. Mandel later said, in exploring photography as "more than just the modernist practice of fine-tuning your style and way of seeing".
Google, unsurprisingly, has a colorful and diverse Doodle on its homepage, accompanied with a link to explore photography from the civil rights movement.
