Heinecken’s most physically impressive and conceptually ambitious work with instant prints is The S.S. Copyright Project: “On Photography.” Made the year after the publication of Susan Sontag’s On Photography, it consists of a magnified and doubled picture of Sontag derived from the book’s dust-jacket portrait (taken by Jill Krementz). The image on the left is comprised of photographs of Sontag’s text, and that on the right, of random pictures taken around Heinecken’s studio and UCLA by Hali Rederer, an assistant hired by Heinecken. With the two panels, Heinecken sets up dichotomies for thinking about the medium’s properties: figurative versus literal, form versus content, image versus text, handmade versus mechanical. While Sontag’s text focuses on vernacular and documentary uses of photography—portraiture, photojournalism, government publicity, etc., The S.S. Copyright Project suggests the expressive potential of the medium and challenges Sontag’s concentration on its representational and referential nature.