He/She with ten original Polaroids

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First edition, first and only printing of He/She by Robert Heinecken. Limited edition of 15 copies (this being #6/15), signed, titled and dated on the first page by Heinecken, with 10 internal dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid SX-70) and offset lithography. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers. 66 pp., spiral-bound, in cloth slipcase (also signed, titled and numbered in black ink on front side by Heinecken). About In the "He/She" pieces, the sexual content is mostly implied by the text since only a few of the Polaroid prints are sexually explicit. 'He' and 'She' characters talk somewhat disjointedly about such matters as kissing and going to bed, but the main thrust of the dialogues is to explore what Heinecken has called relational possibilities. The pictures, which often have little to do in any obvious way with the dialogue they frame, seem simply to offer a visual set of relational possibilities that interact with those of the text. Show more