Robert Heinecken
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© The Robert Heinecken Trust

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ArtistAmerican, 1931–2006
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Untitled
  • from the portfolio Are You Rea
Date1964–1968, printed 1968
PlaceUnited States
MediumPhotolithograph
DimensionsImage: 9 × 4 1/4 in. (22.9 × 10.8 cm)
Sheet: 12 13/16 × 10 in. (32.5 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Polaroid Foundation and Photography Accessions funds
Object number93.128.37
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionRobert Heinecken rarely took his own photographs. Instead, he appropriated and manipulated images from magazines, advertisements, and other media in order to question the nature of photography and issues in contemporary culture as well as to engage the element of chance in artistic creation. In the series, Are You Rea, he used magazine pages as his negatives, which he contact printed, merging the images on both sides of the page into one composite. Fragmented language, advertisements, and elements of feature stories are interwoven in disconcerting and provocative images.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History“Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 31– November 30, 2014.

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