Vik Muniz

Brooklyn (Spiral Jetty after Smithson)
1997

A black and white photograph depicting a desert landscape with a prominent spiral pattern made of dark material on the sandy ground. A path leads from the spiral to a small, dark hill on the left. The background features faint mountain silhouettes shrouded in mist or haze. The image has a rough border indicating it may be a film photograph.
A black and white photograph depicting a desert landscape with a prominent spiral pattern made of dark material on the sandy ground. A path leads from the spiral to a small, dark hill on the left. The background features faint mountain silhouettes shrouded in mist or haze. The image has a rough border indicating it may be a film photograph.

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Date
1997

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 28 15/16 × 39 7/8in. (73.5 × 101.3 cm) Image: 26 1/16 × 39 1/4in. (66.2 × 99.7 cm) Mount (board): 31 × 40in. (78.7 × 101.6 cm) Frame: 35 × 47 × 1 9/16in. (88.9 × 119.4 × 4 cm)

Accession number
99.31

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/12125

Vik Muniz
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