User:ResidualReality/Robert Heinecken

Robert F. Heinecken (Oct. 29, 1931 - May 2006) an artist who was instrumental in changing the way photographs are considered in the American cultural landscape. Throughout his career, Heinecken worked with found images, including undeveloped rolls of pornographic film salvaged from the many commercial graphic houses in Los Angeles, usually in an effort to articulate the social and sexual mores of the time.

"Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph," he once said, "was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it." thus the phrase of "Residual Reality" which has since become a photographic catch phrase.

Heinecken received his B.A. (1951) and M.A. (1959) in Art from UCLA. He was an instructor in the Dept. of Art, UCLA, from 1960-1990 and was honored as professor emeritus in 1991. His work has been exhibited in galleries across the country, including a touring exhibition that originated at George Eastman House, and in West Germany, Tokyo, and Taipei