Waste Land: Pictures of Garbage. Clip | 3m 52s. This brief film module introduces Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, and his project "Pictures of Garbage," which inspired the documentary Wasteland.

Muniz's art and instincts are amazing, but the film is about whether the pickers can indeed transform their own lives by working with him. Photos of the pickers and their portraits after the jump.

Mr. Muniz with a piece from his “Pictures of Garbage” series in 2010. ... Vik Muniz is a contemporary artist who works in Rio de Janeiro and New York City. Share full article.

Artist Vik Muniz’s use of found materials to create ... He then photographs the piece, which is the final artwork. The photos at first look ... Using garbage, a bucket becomes an ear, or ...

Vik Muniz (Brazilian, b. 1961) was born in São Paulo and began his career as a sculptor before turning his attention to photography and conceptual artworks. He is known for his photographs of unique ...

“Waste Land,” a film about the Brooklyn-based, Brazilian-born artist Vik Muniz, ... The film reports the sale of the seven "Pictures of Garbage" raised $250,000, ...

The six prints from that series, titled “Pictures of Garbage,” are part of his traveling show, “Vik Muniz: Poetics of Perception,” which opened Saturday at the Taubman Museum of Art in ...

These include Pictures of Wire, Pictures of Ink, Pictures of Magazines and Pictures of Garbage. Vik Muniz's painting The Creation of Adam, After Michelangelo made of junk Photos: Courtesy of the venue ...

'I'm just going to shake your hand, just to say I shook your hand,' said a fan who had walked up to artist Vik Muniz Wednesday night at Aperture Gallery's opening for Aperture Remix, an exhibition ...

Vik Muniz was born in São Paulo in 1961 and moved to the United States in 1983. ... “Pictures of Garbage” Muniz’s work finds the extraordinary in the ordinary, ...

The present lot is from Vik Muniz’s series Pictures of Junk. To make this image, Muniz recreated his subject, one of Rio de Janeiro's trash pickers, in recycled material. In this way, form and subject ...

Muniz had already become famous for similar projects. He created portraits of the children of sugar cane plantation workers using sugar from the fields where they worked. He made images out of ...