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Seeing Is Believing

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Through playfullness, ambiguity, and our trust in photography as a purveyor of ultimate truth, Muniz's photographs question not only the nature of photographic reality but the reality of images themselves. The commentary in the book from co-authors and artist is excellent and further helps in understanding the work and the conceptual ideas behind it. Muniz's photographs are not only conceptually intriguing but are also aesthetically just beautiful to look at as well. Most of the plates are full page reproductions with a few smaller plates from earlier work. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in photography.

This book is a fantastic documentation of some of Muniz' work (before his recent piece in the Whitney, which enlarges photographs of reproductions in dust of some major Whitney installations and their galleries). Most amazing, for me, were the thread-versions of well-known drawings, where thread substitutes for ink; and the reproductions from memory of a series of famous photos -- something like a graphic version of Sophie Calle's display of the Gardner museum guards' descriptions of the stolen paintings. Alas that it should be so hard to find.