The Pictures Generation – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-pictures-generation
The famous last line of [Roland] Barthes’ essay, that “the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author,” was a call to arms for the loosely knit group of artists working in photography, film, video, and performance that would become known as the “Pictures” generation.
Louise Lawler 1984 Untitled (cowboy) Richard Prince 1989 Perpetual Photo, #209 B
