Robert Heinecken

Object matter

Heinecken described himself as a “para-photographer” because his work stood “beside” or “beyond” traditional notions of the medium. He extended photographic processes and materials into lithography, collage, photo-based painting and sculpture, and installation. Drawing on the countless pictures in magazines, books, pornography, television, and even consumer items such as TV dinners, Heinecken used found images to explore the manufacture of daily life by mass media and the relationship between the original and the copy, both in art and in our culture at large. Thriving on contradictions, friction, and disparity, his examination of American attitudes toward gender, sex, and violence was often humorous and always provocative.

Heineckens work fits in to my assignment of 'Point to pixel' i believe this because the context he has put his type into even if it is just written type on a polaroid or printed and created type layered on to an image, he has used it to enforce reaction to the work.