Connie Chung

Robert Heinecken American

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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.

Connie Chung, Robert Heinecken (American, 1931–2006), Inkjet print

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