Vik Muniz on Photography, Mind, and Matter
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- ISBN 9781597114455
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 190 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 21 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Aperture
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
Vik Muniz (born in São 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 São 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.
