© The Robert Heinecken Trust
On view
Photography
Fractured Figure Sections,
1967
Robert Heinecken, 1931–2006; born Denver, CO; died Albuquerque, NM; active Los Angeles, CA
x1994-20
“There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph,” Heinecken once wrote, rejecting the idea of the camera as a mere recording device. To create this work, he affixed segmented photographs of a nude female figure to the sides of nine blocks that rotate around a central vertical axis. The tower of interlocking blocks can never form a complete figure—the body is always fragmented or truncated, never contiguous. Heinecken expanded notions of what photographs look like, insisting on their interactivity, dimensionality, and ability to puzzle.
Information
Title
Fractured Figure Sections
Dates
1967
Maker
Medium
Gelatin silver prints on wood blocks
Dimensions
25.8 × 9.6 × 9.6 cm (10 3/16 × 3 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Toby and Lilyan Miller
Object Number
x1994-20
Place Made
North America, United States
Inscription
Signed in pen on bottom of base: Fractured / Figure / Sections II #2 of 3 / Heinecken '67
Culture
Techniques
Subject
The artist; acquired by Toby and Lilyan Miller, after 1966; given to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1994.
