Connie Chung
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Connie Chung
- Artist: Robert Heinecken (American, 1931–2006)
- Date: 1986
- Medium: Inkjet print
- Dimensions: 55.5 x 66.0 cm. (21 7/8 x 26 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Charina Foundation Inc. Gift, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.1192
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Robert Heinecken
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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