Publisher's Description
Vik Muniz:
Clayton Days
Picture Stories
Essays by Andy Grundberg
and Linda Benedict-Jones.
Foreword by DeCourcy E. McIntosh.
This new title presents, in its entirety, a
new series of photographs by Vik Muniz,
completed while he was artist-in-residence at the Frick Art & Historical
Center in Pittsburgh. Muniz used his
inimitable photographic eye to capture
Clayton-the historical home of 19th century American industrialist Henry
Clay Frick-through the eyes of a child.
Muniz uses a 19th century 8 x 10 inch
view camera to record a fictional narrative, using a deliberately low point of
view that immerses the viewer in the perspective of a child. The result is a
series of ominous and intriguing images
that approach history in an imaginative,
non-linear fashion. The book Clayton
Days also features an essay by renowned author and photography
critic Andy Grundberg that places this
new series within the context of Muniz's past production and within the tradition of contemporary photography, and an extended dialogue with Muniz conducted by Linda Benedict-Jones, executive director of the Silver Eye Center for Photography.
Book Information
ISBN:
0970342500
Publisher:
Frick Art Museum
Format:
Paperback, 96 pages
Language:
English