[Food photogram]
Print
[Food photogram]
1971
Offset photolithograph
7/100
20.0 x 25.2 cm.
Gift of the photographer
1973.0059.0004
Inscriptions (no inscriptions)
TextRobert Heinecken made the images for this portfolio of lithographs by setting the contents of meals on top of photographic paper and exposing the configuration to light. He used the resulting photograms (photographs made without a camera or lens) to create printing plates for an edition of lithographs. The eight prints came with a menu, cleverly annotated by the artist, and a simulated landscape painting, all enclosed in the kind of plastic sleeve commonly used to hold family-style restaurant menus. A shrewd comment on both consumer culture and the practice of documentary photography, the portfolio is also best appreciated as a group of objects, rather than a selection of images.
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