Vik Muniz

Memory Rendering of Kent State Shootings
1985–1990, printed 1995

A black and white photograph depicting a woman with outstretched arms kneeling over a prone figure on the ground, conveying a sense of urgency and distress. There is handwritten text at the bottom of the image.

A black and white photograph depicting a woman with outstretched arms kneeling over a prone figure on the ground, conveying a sense of urgency and distress. There is handwritten text at the bottom of the image.

Not on view

Date
1985–1990, printed 1995

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 13/16in. (27.6 × 35.1 cm) Image: 6 7/16 × 9 9/16in. (16.4 × 24.3 cm)

Accession number
99.30.2

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/12116

Exhibitions

Memorials of War

Aug 19–Nov 28, 2004

Vik Muniz
19 works in the collection

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