Heinecken, Robert
Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series; 14.
Tucson, AZ
Nazraeli Press
2002
First edition; limited Edition
16 p.
Paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued
with 12 duotone plates
Buch, Künstlerbuch
Special limited edition of 500 copies hand-numbered and signed by Heinecken, with one original gelatin silver print (5 1/8 x 4 inches) tipped in the final page. - "It is natural, when faced with photographic negatives, to hold them up to the light. It is the same when faced with Robert Heinecken's set of reversed out images from a 1970s "top-shelf" magazine. However, if in a crowded room (or bookshop) resist the impulse. Heinecken produced these incredible photograms, showing verso and recto pages simultaneously - and in negative - over thirty years ago. A long-forgotten off-shoot from his famous ARE YOU REA portfolio, published in 1968, they were rediscovered only recently in Heinecken's archives. A pioneer of recycled imagery, Heinecken is universally recognized for his role in redefining the boundaries of photography as an art medium." "It was once believed that [Heinecken's] early photograms were lost. After a fire in his studio, several household moves, then a relocation from LA to Chicago, he finally unpacked his belongings and found this early work which, thirty years later, seems more innocent and more beautiful in its graphic sensuality." (Vogue Hommes International). S. also Antiq, Borrelli, Albuquerque, NM (04.2005).