Contemporary Photographs
Contemporary Photographs
ROBERT HEINECKEN | 'RECTO/VERSO'
Auction Closed
September 27, 03:27 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ROBERT HEINECKEN
1931-2006
'RECTO/VERSO'
(Berkeley: Landweber/Artists, 1989, a total edition of 60), a portfolio of 12 Cibachrome prints, each signed, titled, dated, editioned '6/50,' and numbered sequentially in pencil on the reverse, matted as issued and framed, with text on vellum interleaving, numbered sequentially, 1988; together with letterpress title/plate list/colophon, editioned '6/50' in pencil; accompanied by Are You Rea (Los Angeles: Self-published, 1968), a portfolio of 25 lithographs; together with the colophon, signed and editioned '406/500' in ink, and preface by Alex Sweetman. Folio, white-and-red-lettered black linen portfolio
Various sizes to 10¾ by 9 in. (27.3 by 22.9 cm.) or the reverse
Robert Heinecken, Recto/Verso (Portland, 2006) (the complete set reproduced)
This portfolio, containing Recto/Verso (1989) and Are You Rea (1968), encapsulates Heinecken’s masterful approach to manipulating advertising imagery. Each print was made by contact printing the two sides of a magazine page over one another to create a kaleidoscopic image permeated by female body parts, cosmetic products, fashion logos, and blocks of text. The resulting photographs superimpose these streams of information to create a visually forceful social commentary on the superficial underpinnings of media culture.