In the end, all the artists featured in the exhibition accept full responsibility for every detail of their images, offering a powerful alternative to
the dominant photographic tradition of the compelling picture that is somehow found by chance.
Appropriation and the Archive: In the early 1960s, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol began to incorporate
photographic images into their paintings, establishing a new mode of visual production that relied not on the then -
dominant tradition of gestural abstraction but rather on mechanical processes such as screenprinting.