Robert Rauschenberg as Photographer

The artist Robert Rauschenberg was always interested in bringing a full range of media to his artworks—he’s most famous, after all, for his “Combines” of 1954-1964, works that, as the name suggests, combined non-traditional materials from various disciplines, such as painting and sculpture. But just how much of an interest Rauschenberg had in photography, and its importance in his work, is made clear in a new book from D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel, “Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs 1949-1962.”