Philip Heying's Slides of Burroughs' Paintings (1986)
Lawrence, Kansas: Philip Heying (photographic slides), 1986. 11.25" x 9" (plastic sheet); 2" x 2" (slides, each), fifteen slides in a plastic protective sheet. Fifteen slides taken of William S. Burroughs' early paintings, taken by Philip Heying — photographer and friend of Burroughs — in collaboration with William S. Burroughs at his studio in Lawrence, Kansas in 1986. As noted by Philip Heying in his 2025 essay "A Do Easy Portrait of William Burroughs," Philip describes the context in which these were taken: “[William] started asking me about ways to photographically merge images from one painting onto another. A few weeks after that, James [Grauerholz] called me to ask if I could help William use photography to make visual analogies to cut up recordings… "When I met with William, he asked me to shoot macro detail slides of some of his favorite parts of pieces he was working on. ‘Do you see that fox, right there, coming out of those bushes?’ he...
