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 pictures -- sly, punning documents that subvert photography by forcing it to record not the natural world but a fiction, a simulation". Muniz's pictures are illusions that draw from the language of visual culture, but they twist and redefine our perception of both the commonplace and the ...
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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 pictures -- sly, punning documents that subvert photography by forcing it to record not the natural world but a fiction, a simulation". Muniz's pictures are illusions that draw from the language of visual culture, but they twist and redefine our perception of both the commonplace and the fantastic. Muniz's images humorously, as well as critically, challenge our abilities to discern fact from fiction, reality from illusion. Utilizing a panoply of unorthodox materials -- granulated sugar, tomato sauce, chocolate syrup, a 16,000-yard piece of sewing thread, and soil -- Muniz first creates an image, sculpturally manipulates it, then photographs it. Whether a portrait, a landscape, or an iconic image from history, Muniz's images are never what they seem. This book, the artist's first monograph, was produced in conjunction with Muniz's one-person traveling exhibition.
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Fair. Item in acceptable condition including possible liquid damage. As well answers may be filled in. May be missing DVDs, CDs, Access code, etc. 100%Money-Back Guarantee! Ship within 24 hours! ! The dust jacket is missing.
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Very good in Good jacket. Jacket has small tears on the corners, and a 2" tear with crumpling at the top end of the spine. Cover has light wear on corners. Inside pages are clean and unmarked.
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Good in a Good Jacket; Hardcover; 1998, Arena Editions Publishing; Jacket is moderately edgeworn with a couple edge-tears and a chip to the back top edge (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light overall wear to covers with moderately "bumped" edge-corners and minor rubbing to the corners; Pages bright & unmarked; Tight binding with straight spine; Black dust jacket with art illustration of binoculars & title in white & black lettering along spine; 164 pages; "Seeing Is Believing, " by Charles Ashley Stainback.
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Very Good. Size: 0x9x13; Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Dust jacket has a few tiny closed tears on top edge. Dust jacket now nicely protected in mylar cover.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Jacket is lightly worn along edges. Chips from bottom edge of jacket front cover and from top edge of back cover near spine. Cover corners are lightly worn. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition, 1998, hardcover with pictorial paper boards in dust jacket, quarto, 164pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild wear to corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG with protective mylar wrap taped onto reverse side, front flap shows vertical creases.
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Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Signed by Stainback! First edition, 1998, hardcover with illustrated paper boards in dust jacket, quarto, 164pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book fine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG+ with edgewear that includes a few small tears.
