From the publisher: "It is natural, when faced with photographic negatives, to hold them up to the light. It is the same when faced with Robert Heinecken's set of reversed out images from a 1970s "top-shelf" magazine. However, if in a crowded room (or bookshop) resist the impulse. Heinecken produced these incredible photograms, showing verso and recto pages simultaneously -- and in negative -- over thirty years ago. A long-forgotten off-shoot from his famous ARE YOU REA portfolio, published in 1968, they were rediscovered only recently in Heinecken's archives. A pioneer of recycled imagery, Heinecken is universally recognized for his role in redefining the boundaries of photography as an art medium." "It was once believed that [Heinecken's] early photograms were lost. After a fire in his studio, several household moves, then a relocation from LA to Chicago, he finally unpacked his belongings and found this early work which, thirty years later, seems more innocent and more beautiful in its graphic sensuality." -- Vogue Hommes International