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VIK MUNIZ (B. 1961)
Lot 249

VIK MUNIZ (B. 1961)

The White Iris, after Edward Weston, 2012; The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Volume 1, Mexico, 1973

Closed2 October 2019

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VIK MUNIZ (B. 1961)
The White Iris, after Edward Weston, 2012; The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Volume 1, Mexico, 1973
The White Iris, after Edward Weston, 2012
digital gelatin silver print, accompanied by book encased in glass vitrine
signed and dated in ink, credited, titled, dated, and numbered 'AP3/3' on affixed photographer's studio label (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.9 cm.)
This work is artist's proof three aside from an edition of five.

The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Volume 1, Mexico, 1973
New York: Aperture, 1973. Trim size approximately 10 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. (26 x 22.2 cm.); case size approximately 16 7/8 x 24 5/8 x 3 1/8 (42.8 x 62.5 x 7.9 cm.); numbered 'AP of 5' in colophon
This work is artist's proof number three aside from an edition of five.

Courtesy of Aperture Foundation.

Specialist note

Vik Muniz’s White Iris was created in conjunction with Aperture’s sixtieth anniversary as part of Aperture Remix, a project in which a select group of contemporary photographers paid artistic homage to an Aperture publication that inspired their work. Muniz’s selection—The Daybooks of Edward Weston: Volume 1, Mexico—accompanies his print, presented in a decorative vitrine. In keeping with his practice, Muniz has torn and arranged selected fragments from the book to employ as raw materials in creating a unique appropriation of the original Weston White Iris image.