Vik Muniz on Photography, Mind, and Matter by Vik Muniz - ISBN: 9781597114455
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See familiar things in surprising ways: ignite your creative photography.

Vik Muniz on Photography, Mind, and Matter

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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    30 November 2025

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Summary

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781597114455
ISBN-10:1597114456
Author:Vik Muniz, Studio Rubic, Lucas Blalock
Publisher:Aperture
Imprint:Aperture
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:30 November 2025
Weight:550g
Dimensions:33mm x 253mm x 192mm
Series:The Photography Workshop Series
About The Author

Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz (born in So Paulo, 1961) is a prolific, internationally recognised 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 So Paulo; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has published many books, including 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.

Lucas Blalock is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose work is in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Hammer Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Portland Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. His work has been featured in publications including Arforum, the New York Times, New Yorker, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, W Magazine, British Journal of Photography, and Time.

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