First edition, first and only printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers (published only in wraps). 66 pp., spiral-bound, with 8 four-color reproductions (of SX-70 color prints). Photographs and writings (began in 1974) by Robert Heinecken. 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 inches. Out of print. Scarce.
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Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.
Spiral-bound Stiff Paper Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Reproductions of polaroid photos with text. Signed on title page : "For Rhona - / Heinecken". Clean and unmarked. Tiny, 1/8", chip to top left corner of cover and 1" crease to lower right corner. Signed and Inscribed by Author. Seller Inventory # 024968
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Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Bin 4 (Long Case). Spiral-bound. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Light wear. Seller Inventory # 91260
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Seller: top-choice-books, Fairport, NY, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. USED - AS NEW (SIGNED)(not inscribed) condition. "He:/She:" is a spiral-bound, softcover volume with illustrated stiff paper covers measuring 5.25 x 8 inches (13.3 x 20.3 cm) and contains 66 pages of numerous color reproductions on facsimile index cards. There are 8 four-color reproductions (of SX-70 color prints). FIRST EDITION (1980), First (and only) printing. This copy is in NEAR PERFECT CONDITION, having been protected in a plastic sleeve since we received it, with no defects to report for a softcover title that is 42 years old. The cover boards are smooth, and the pages are crisp and sharp. The title page verso reads: These writings began in 1974 and since that date have been exhibited as collage elements in art galleries and portfolios. This is an EXTREMELY RARE and COLLECTIBLE TITLE (especially as SIGNED and NOT inscribed) and will not last long in our stock. This copy of "He:/She:" has been stored in a temperature and humidity-controlled clean air environment over the years, since our acquisition of the title. I use a professional shipper for all packages, so you can be sure what you purchase will arrive in the condition it is represented at the sale. Please ask questions about his title BEFORE you purchase and read disclaimers as stated in the auction. The authenticity and legitimacy of this title and signatures are guaranteed. From The New York Times, June 7, 1981, "Photography View" by Andy Grunberg: In the "He/She" pieces, the sexual content is mostly implied by the text since only a few of the Polaroid prints are sexually explicit. 'He' and 'She' characters talk somewhat disjointedly about such matters as kissing and going to bed, but the main thrust of the dialogues is to explore what Heinecken has called relational possibilities. The pictures, which often have little to do in any obvious way with the dialogue they frame, seem simply to offer a visual set of relational possibilities that interact with those of the text. IN STOCK. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 3036
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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Oblong (5.25 x 8 inches). Color reproductions of six of Heinecken's SX-70 Polaroid images of couples; the text on lined paper mimicing index cards. Spiral bound. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER RALPH GIBSON on the title, and with Gibson's ex-libris stamp on inner front wrapper. Laid-in is a mimeo note from Heinecken dated April 1980: "Enclosed as a gift for you is a small book I recently completed. As you proudly show the book to your friends, colleagues and parents you could mention that they can find their own copy in their mailbox by sending me $10.00 / If this package did not protect the book, please let me know. / The numbered [crossed out] edition for sale is 500 and approximately another 100 like yours are floating around." A wonderful association copy, as Gibson is noted for his own exceptional series of photobooks, having created over 40 of his own. Heinecken was a leading conceptual photographer of his generation, calling himself at times a "paraphotographer" because so many of his works were made without a camera and through appropriation. A near-fine copy with a few creases to front wrapper. Seller Inventory # 405069
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Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition, first and only printing. Limited edition of 15 copies (this being #2/15), signed, titled and dated on the first page by Heinecken, with 10 internal dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid SX-70) and offset lithography. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers. 66 pp., spiral-bound, in cloth slipcase (also signed, titled and numbered in black ink on front side by Heinecken). Photographs and writings (began in 1974) by Robert Heinecken. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches. Very rare special edition created by Heinecken. As New (from the artist's archive). About Robert Heinecken: Robert Heinecken is one of the most innovative and influential artists of the second half of the 20th century. He was a pioneer of postmodern photographic practices, and his work anticipated the Pictures Generation artists of the 1970s and 1980s who practiced the appropriation of images from advertising and the media. A self-described "para-photographer," Heinecken was always challenging the conventions of the then-accepted "canon" of photography. He transformed the possibilities of the medium, and had a profound impact on many photography-based artists who studied with him. Influenced by Dada and Surrealism, especially Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and John Heartfield, Heinecken worked with numerous photographic techniques and materials, oftentimes combining them with various printmaking processes. In addition to offset lithography and etching, he made use of film transparencies, photographic emulsion on canvas, gelatin silver prints mounted to wood (e.g., "Multiple Solution Puzzle" Series), Polaroid materials, mixed media collage and photograms (e.g., ARE YOU REA and Recto/Verso Series). His source materials included popular "lifestyle" magazines, advertising, images taken directly from television screens, pornography and news photographs. Through his ground-breaking works, Heinecken transformed American notions of consumerism, war, eroticism and mass media. From Robert Heinecken (in the mid-1960s): "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.)." An excerpt from a text written by Carl Chiarenza (in 1976): "He uses existing photographs. and their reproductions because they have littered the world and our minds with unlimited examples of every conceivable image of truth, beauty, banality, eroticism, brutality, pornography, consumerism, political idea, personality, idol, and ideal. Indeed one is hard put to name anything that has not been replaced by a photographically derived image. His recycling of these images makes this astounding point before making any other. Heinecken knows the photograph is not real. He also knows that most of us still believe it is. The camera eye is lusty and insatiable, a perfect match for Heinecken's eye." Robert Heinecken was born in 1931 in Denver, Colorado and in 1942 his family relocated to Riverside, California. After serving in the US Marine Corps, he earned a BA in 1959 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he continued his studies, specializing in printmaking and graduating with an MFA in 1960. He founded the graduate program for photography at UCLA in 1964, where he taught until 1991. Heinecken died at age 74 in 2006 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 110760
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