
Recto/Verso
Robert Heinecken's *Recto/Verso* is a series of twelve dye destruction prints that pair vivid photographic imagery with provocative text overlays, creating a tension between the visual and the written. Drawing from mass media sources, Heinecken manipulates and recontextualizes found imagery to challenge assumptions about gender, advertising, and cultural consumption. Published in 1988 by Landweber/Artists in Berkeley, the work exemplifies Heinecken's signature approach of treating photography as a conceptual and political tool rather than a purely documentary medium.
- Medium
- Berkeley: Landweber/Artists, 1988. Twelve dye destruction prints, each with text overlay.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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Photographs Day Sale
April 2, 2015
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