Vik Muniz

Memory Rendering of Man Stopping Tank in Beijing
1985–1990, printed 1995

A black and white photograph depicting a blurry image of a lone individual standing in front of a line of tanks on a broad roadway. The image has a caption handwritten at the bottom that reads "Memory Rendering of Man Stops Tanks Beijing June 1989" followed by the text "the look of Life Portfolio. U2/U2R/1995. A/P 1/2."

A black and white photograph depicting a blurry image of a lone individual standing in front of a line of tanks on a broad roadway. The image has a caption handwritten at the bottom that reads "Memory Rendering of Man Stops Tanks Beijing June 1989" followed by the text "the look of Life Portfolio. U2/U2R/1995. A/P 1/2."

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Date
1985–1990, printed 1995

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm) Image: 9 3/4 × 6 1/2in. (24.8 × 16.5 cm)

Accession number
99.30.3

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

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