Readymade? Found Art?

"The curious thing about the readymade is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me."
-Marcel Duchamp

"By putting the found object as the origin of it's work, the privilege of the artist being the origin of it's work will be taken relatively equal with the object.
Working with readymade photographs ables to omit the composition/structure in the working process.
By using readymade photographs, the painting becomes independent=alienate from the artist and extracts it's existence of chance, in which it seems to be unexpectedly emerged. But at the same time, it carries a criticism on the image about an image.
The media of Photography has its odd character compared to other things, in which it is a readymade that could remain the "same", although it's size and it's support are changed. Reorganization."
-Michio Hayashi


Why did those artists wanted to reduce or reject his/her own existence in the work by using readymade practice? To reach the pureness of it's work or of an object or maybe of a form of art? How does artist distract their artworks? But this brings me up with a reverse question; does artwork need artist?
Readymade could be a form of minimalism, in the sense of how the artist was minimally involved to give the work a form as an artwork. But there are several other usages for readymade. There are notions such as found art and conversion of the object.


"Until now, I've referred to the sky as a mirror or a window reflecting my own soul, but this time as I used the sky as a canvas, I realized that the sky itself was now the film."
-Nobuyoshi Araki

Now, when one takes a photo and this photo is used by the one who took the photo as a base of an artwork, such as canvas, would it be noted as a practice of readymade? What happens when the photography is taken by oneself, who is using this photography as a medium to produce another form of work? What starts to function? What brings up there for a meaning? Will there be a question of the role of the photography and why is it used in such way?

1. May, 2011