Catalog of exhibitions held at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, Feb. 19-Mar. 26, 2011, at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, Feb. 18-Apr. 9, 2011, and at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, Nov. 10-Dec. 22, 2011.
Contents:
Statements about work (c. 1963) / Robert Heinecken -- I am involved in learning to perceive and use light / Robert Heinecken -- 1957-1967 early work -- Strange series -- 1969-1971 early magazines and related work -- 1968-1974 lithographic film and canvasses -- 1979-1984 polaroids and related collage -- 1986 surrealism on TV -- 1990-1991 later photograms -- 1993-1995 later magazines -- 1987-1997 standing figures and relief collage -- No crime involved -- but with that assumption / Keving Moore -- Biography.
Summary:
Robert Heinecken (1931- 2006) has been called one of America's most influential contemporary, conceptual photographers, and yet he rarely used a camera. His definition of photography encompassed everything related to the photo; rather than focusing on the photographic image as a creation derived solely from a camera, his interest was on the relation of methods and formalism - often in an irreverent and humorous way - to popular media. This first large-scale monograph presents an overview of Henicken's work from the 1960s - 1990s, highlighting his exploration of the material possibilities of the medium, and how he created new methods to record and produce photographic objects using collage, lithography, Polaroid, silver gelatine prints, color processes, digital prints and experimental uses of darkroom chemistry.
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