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Robert Heinecken (#2)
Robert Heinecken is an artist and teacher whose eclectic and challenging work radically expanded the range of possibilities for photography as art.
Starting in the early 1960’s, Mr. Heinecken used an array of unconventional processes and an irreverent attitude toward the photographic original to influence the course of the art form. Surprisingly, for someone who came to be identified as a photographer, Mr. Heinecken seldom used a camera; he did not really take pictures himself until he started making Polaroid photographs of magazine pages in the late 1970’s.
For his source material, Mr. Heinecken also turned to pornographic magazines, mail-order negatives of nude “art studies,” product packaging and television commercials. He subjected these “found images” to a variety of transformations involving methods and materials like lithography, etching, cameraless direct-exposure photograms and photo emulsion applied to canvas. (…)
