Vik Muniz

Memory Rendering of Tranbang Child
1985–1990, printed 1995

A monochromatic image depicting a blurred figure of a child running towards the viewer with arms outstretched in joy or excitement, and a second, more distant figure standing still in the background. The foreground is dominated by the child's movement, while the background figure appears to be observing. The image has a grainy, ethereal quality, suggesting it is a memory or a dream. Handwritten text at the bottom of the image reads "Memory Rendering of Trung Banh 1972" "The Harbor Life Portfolio UCR/MOP 1995 5/12".

A monochromatic image depicting a blurred figure of a child running towards the viewer with arms outstretched in joy or excitement, and a second, more distant figure standing still in the background. The foreground is dominated by the child's movement, while the background figure appears to be observing. The image has a grainy, ethereal quality, suggesting it is a memory or a dream. Handwritten text at the bottom of the image reads "Memory Rendering of Trung Banh 1972" "The Harbor Life Portfolio UCR/MOP 1995 5/12".

Not on view

Date
1985–1990, printed 1995

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm) Image: 9 11/16 × 6 1/2in. (24.6 × 16.5 cm)

Accession number
99.30.1

Series
The Best of Life

Edition
AP 1/2 | Ed. 10

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Vik Muniz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/12115

Exhibitions

Memorials of War

Aug 19–Nov 28, 2004

Vik Muniz
19 works in the collection

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