Pages/(If You) (from the series Recto/Verso)
Artist
Robert Heinecken
(American, 1931 - 2006)
Date1988
MediumDye bleach prints (4), photogram
DimensionsImage (irregular): 10 13/16 × 7 15/16 in. (27.5 × 20.2 cm)
Support (each): 14 × 9 1/2 in. (35.6 × 24.1 cm)
Mat: 17 × 42 in. (43.2 × 106.7 cm)
Support (each): 14 × 9 1/2 in. (35.6 × 24.1 cm)
Mat: 17 × 42 in. (43.2 × 106.7 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Joyce Neimanas, 2012
Object number2012.25.3
DescriptionFour photographs matted together horizontally; magazine pages exposed; (1) woman's torso in lingerie with words "If you"; (2) woman's torso in lingerie with words "Beautiful Eyes" and picture of Christie Brinkley, recto of magazine page; (3) woman's face with words "Beautiful Eyes" and a picture of Christie Brinkley, verso of magazine page; (4) woman's face with the word "Clarion"eMuseum Notes
These images are photograms, created by using pages from a magazine as a “negative” and shining light through them to the photographic paper below. Heinecken was keenly interested in how print and television media use images to influence their audiences and often used his art to reveal that practice. In this piece, he exposes more than one page on each sheet of paper to underscore the complexity of media messages about female beauty and sexuality in American culture.
On View
Not on view
Steve Fitch
Negative 1983, print 2021
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