Connie Chung

Robert Heinecken

1986 · Inkjet print · Photographs

This dreamlike image of the well-known news anchor is a digitally scanned and printed reinterpretation of a cameraless photograph that the artist made by placing photographic paper directly against the television screen and turning the set on for a few seconds. Heinecken has long explored the ways in which the world is transformed by photography and the popular media. Here he presents a multilayered work that simultaneously relates to the earliest photographic experiments made without a camera, to the omnipresent medium of television, and, by its visible pixelation, to our increasingly computerized world.

Artist

Robert Heinecken

Date

1986

Medium

Inkjet print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Charina Foundation Inc. Gift, 1986