Breast/Bomb #5 comprises nine prints of the same negative, which Heinecken cut up, reassembled, and mounted to produce a continuous new image that, although bizarre, is recognizable as the female anatomy. “We constantly tend to misuse or misunderstand the term reality in reference to photographs,” Heinecken wrote the same year he made this work. “The photograph itself is the only thing that is real, that exists. The elements in the print are simply referents of various kinds which operate on various levels. Obviously no picture, photographic or otherwise, can hope to come close in duplicating or even simulating reality. 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.)”