That backward - forward sensibility is highly apparent in Heinecken's first posthumous retrospective, which includes his mash - ups of men's magazines and popular newsweeklies and «videograms» made by
pressing Cibachrome paper against a television screen.
«5 This distinction is probably most clearly articulated in a work Heinecken made on January 20th, 1981, when he
pressed an 11 x 14 — inch piece of
Cibachrome paper to a small color television set as Ronald Reagan gave his first inaugural address.6 The resulting image, a blurry «videogram,» in Heinecken's idiosyncratic terminology, embodies this tension.