Capa do livro

Seeing is believing

fotografias Vik Muniz ; curadoria Charles Ashley Stainback

Vik Muniz works with the syntax of photography, but his images are not simply photographic. As Vince Aletti has pointed out in the Village Voice, Muniz has teased the medium mercilessly and with an infectious glee. He makes pictures of picturessly, punning documents that subvert photography by forcing it to record not the natural world but a fiction, a simulation. Munizs pictures are illusions that draw from the language of visual culture, but they twist and redefine our perception to both the commonplace and the fantastic. Munizs images humorously, as well as critically, challenge our abilities to discern fact from fiction, reality from illusion. Utilizing a panoply of unorthodox materialsgranulated sugar, tomato sauce, chocolate syrup, a 16,000-yard piece of sewing thread, and soilMuniz first creates an image, sculpturally manipulates it, then photographs it. Whether a portrait, a landscape, or an iconic image from history, Munizs images are never what! they seem. This book, the artist s first monograph, is produced in conjunction with Munizs one-person exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York, opening September 1998.

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Identificação
Título
Seeing is believing
Tipo de publicação
Cidade de edição
País de edição
Editora
Ano de publicação
1998
Número de páginas
164 p.
ISBN / ISSN
1892041006 / 9781892041005
Idioma
Ficha Técnica
Autoria (fotografia)
Autoria (outros textos)
Outros
Forma Física
Largura (cm)
25
Altura (cm)
31
Tipo de capa
Dura com sobrecapa
Tipo de encadernação
Brochura
Conteúdos
Notas de conteúdo

Contém texto adicional de Mark Alice Durant.

Notas de exposição

Publicação produzida por ocasião da exposição homônima realizada no International Center of Photography, em Nova York, de 11 de setembro a 15 de novembro de 1998.

Notas de idioma

Contém livreto anexo com textos em português.

Assuntos fotográficos
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