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Photography: Processes, Preservation, and Conservation
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Connie Chung, 1986
Robert Heinecken (American, b. 1931)
Ink jet print; 21 7/8 x 26 in. (55.5 x 66 cm)
Purchase, Charina Foundation Inc. Gift, 1986 (1986.1192)
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Description
This dreamlike image of the well-known news anchor is a digitally scanned and printed reinterpretation of a cameraless photograph, which 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 photography and the popular media transform the world. This work alludes not only to the earliest photographic experiments made without a camera, but also to the omnipresent medium of television, and, by its visible pixelation, to our increasingly computerized world.
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