Robert Heinecken

Text by Kevin Moore
Ridinghouse 2012 in association with Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles • £28 | $49.95 • Hardback • 144 pp • 30.5 x 24.2 cm | 12 x 9.5 in • 150 colour illustrations • ISBN 978 1 905464 47 0

Robert Heinecken (1931-2006) has been called one of America's most influential contemporary conceptual photographers, and yet he rarely used a camera. Rather than focusing on the photographic image as a creation derived solely from a camera, Heinecken's 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 Heinecken's work from the 1960s-90s, including a fulll portfolio of one of the artist's best-known works, the Are You Rea series (1964-68), and highlights his exploration of the material possibilities of the medium, creating new methods to record and produce photographic objects using collage, lithography, digital prints and experimental darkroom chemistry.