He joined the Navy in 1954 and served as a fighter pilot (though too short, he passed a height test by padding his socks with paper).
[5] In the late 1960s, he also began cutting up popular magazines such as Time and Vogue and inserting sexual or pornographic images into them.
[7] In 1983/84 he created such Foodograms even on large polaroid sheets (20x24 inches) in collaboration with John Reuter in San Diego and Boston.
[2] As a professor at UCLA, Heinecken was a prime mover in the Los Angeles art photography scene.
Among them were John Divola, Eileen Cowin, Graham Howe, Jo Ann Callis and Ray McSavaney.