Lessons in Posing Subjects

Robert Heinecken
Lessons in Posing Subjects

Photographs: Robert Heinecken

Publisher: Triangle Books

56 pages

Year: 2014

Comments: Softcover, spiral bound. 250 x 340 mm. First edition, 2014. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Beautiful edition. In very good condition.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title, this book presents the series Lessons in Posing Subjects which Robert Heinecken created in 1981-1982 and reproduced here in its entirety for the first time.
Playing with the reality effect inherent to instant photographs, Heinecken re-contextualizes in this series images found in mail order catalogues, which he juxtaposes with ironic texts.
At once seductive and full of humour, his ‘lessons’ are no less provocative, bearing witness to the commitment of this controversial artist, who considered his approach a form of ‘guerrilla’ artistic practice