Various views of Robert with family
Contributed by Carl Chiarenza
Heidi, Robert, Joy 1980
Heidi and Robert
Joy and Robert
Robert, Carl, Jonah, Heidi
Robert, Joy, Carl
Robert “Bob” Heinecken
Contributed by Carl Chiarenza
Photo by Darryl Curran
ROBERT HEINECKEN 1931-2006
In the mid 1960s Robert Heinecken wrote,
“We constantly tend to misuse or misunderstand the term reality in reference to photographs. The photograph itself is the only thing that is real, that exists…. (There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.)” This parenthetical phrase is, typically, a loaded Heineckism — always open to interpretation and thus leading to new ideas, new visions, new images, and new possibilities.
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