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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tall 4 to. 164 pp. Extensive illustrations of Muniz's photography. Heavy book requiring extra shipping costs on priority or international shipments.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 164 pages. Features essays by Charles Ashley Stainback and Mark Alice Durant and with the text of a conversation between Stainback and Muniz as well. Includes 75 color plates. A very near fine copy in an about very good dust jacket with some chips from the spine ends and some edge tears and wear to the corners. Still, a very nice copy of this important early monograph on Muniz.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1892041006 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. …

"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., Best described as an artist who uses a camera, Vik Muniz blurs the lines between painting, sculpture, and photography. He has made a number of different series of photographs in which he constructs images--often portraits--out of materials such as sugar, chocolate syrup, and thread. In another series, he drew famous images (using his aforementioned nontraditional media), like the photograph of Neil Armstrong on the moon, from memory. Muniz plays freely in the field of representation. And through his work, viewers witness the complicated separation between a real image that seems definitely to exist somewhere, and the means by which Muniz achieves a representation of that image--first re-creating it, then making a photograph. He writes that "illusion becomes a way to improve our understanding of what reality is and humor becomes a subject for serious investigation." By setting up images that aim to unsettle viewers` perceptual faculties as a way of expanding understanding, and stimulating discovery, Muniz takes part in a trend in image-making that includes artists such as Gerhard Richter, Richard Artschwager, and Thomas Demand. Published alongside his solo exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York, Seeing Is Believing is the first monograph on Vik Muniz. The book includes essays by Charles Ashley Stainback and by Mark Alice Durant, as well as a dialogue between Muniz and Stainback." 4°. 164 S., ca 100 Abb., ill. OPappband mit OUmschl., Ecken etw. b.…