Description
In this volume of The Photography Workshop Series, Vik Muniz-known for his playful pictures that complicate what is understood as a photograph, sculpture, and painting-offers his insight into thinking creatively and seeing the familiar in new and surprising ways.
Aperture works with the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography-offering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Through images and words, Muniz shares his creative practice and artistic inspirations, and discusses a wide range of topics, from generating ideas and creating images that challenge viewers' perceptions, to collaboration, imperfection, and the interplay of subject, scale, and material.
About the Author
Vik Muniz (born in Sao Paulo, 1961) is a prolific, internationally recognized artist, whose signature style appropriates and reinterprets iconic images of our time. His work is featured in major collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has published many books, including the Aperture titles Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer (2005) and Postcards from Nowhere (2020). Waste Land, a documentary about his work in the favelas and landfills around Rio de Janeiro, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010.
Awards
Winner of Crystal Award 2013 (Switzerland). Commended for Ordem do Ipiranga 2010 (Brazil) and Medalha da Inconfidencia 2009 (Brazil) and Premio Cidadao Carioca 2009 (Brazil).
Book Information
ISBN 9781597114455
Author Vik Muniz
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Aperture
Publisher Aperture
Weight(grams) 544g
Aperture works with the world's top photographers to distill their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography-offering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Through images and words, Muniz shares his creative practice and artistic inspirations, and discusses a wide range of topics, from generating ideas and creating images that challenge viewers' perceptions, to collaboration, imperfection, and the interplay of subject, scale, and material.
About the Author
Vik Muniz (born in Sao Paulo, 1961) is a prolific, internationally recognized artist, whose signature style appropriates and reinterprets iconic images of our time. His work is featured in major collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has published many books, including the Aperture titles Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer (2005) and Postcards from Nowhere (2020). Waste Land, a documentary about his work in the favelas and landfills around Rio de Janeiro, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010.
Awards
Winner of Crystal Award 2013 (Switzerland). Commended for Ordem do Ipiranga 2010 (Brazil) and Medalha da Inconfidencia 2009 (Brazil) and Premio Cidadao Carioca 2009 (Brazil).
Book Information
ISBN 9781597114455
Author Vik Muniz
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Aperture
Publisher Aperture
Weight(grams) 544g
