Robert Heinecken Professions : Photographer Born : 1931 Died : 2006 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by Robert Heinecken There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph. Robert Heinecken differences photography photographer Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph. Robert Heinecken differences photography world I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations. Robert Heinecken gestalt together ideas There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph. Robert Heinecken shooting differences photography The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something. Robert Heinecken objects photograph I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible. Robert Heinecken keys feelings interesting An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla. Robert Heinecken juxtaposition visuals aspect I was never in a school situation where someone said, This is the way a photograph is supposed to look. I was completely open to cut them up, or do anything like that. I think if I had been in touch with people earlier, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable doing that. It would have been too bizarre. Robert Heinecken cutting school thinking Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it. Robert Heinecken enthusiasm matter reality I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image. Robert Heinecken unfamiliar familiar play Similar Authors Inge Morath photographer Bert Stern photographer Brent Stirton photographer Bunny Yeager photographer Burt Glinn photographer Bruno Barbey photographer All Authors