Artist Muniz hired local catadores, or garbage pickers, to gather specific items to construct his mosaics. The pickers also served as models as he arranged the items into pictures.

Vik Muniz's Standard Station, after Ed Ruscha (from Pictures of Cars) is one of three variations of the 1960s gas station created by the artist. Fittingly, Muniz chooses elements from cars to ...

Mr. Muniz with a piece from his “Pictures of Garbage” series in 2010. Mr. Muniz donated proceeds from the sale of “Pictures of Garbage” to the Gramacho workers. Todd Heisler/The New York Times ...

“Pictures of Garbage” Muniz’s work finds the extraordinary in the ordinary, and his 2008 series “Pictures of Garbage” is no exception.

Vik Muniz, Standard Station (Night) after Ed Ruscha (from Pictures of Cars) (2008). Chromogenic print (c-print), mounted to aluminum. 44 x 75.5 x 1.5 in., edition of 6. Estimated at $30,000 ...

Otahi, after Paul Gauguin by Vik Muniz belongs to the “Pictures of Pigment” series, which reproduced emblematic paintings by Monet, Klimt, Matisse, Malevitch, Gauguin, Munch, Klein and Rothko. As the ...

Muniz questions that implied lottery. His “Pictures of Garbage” series focuses on the “catadores” of Brazil, who survive by picking through mountains of garbage to find recyclables.

Vik Muniz, “Marat (Sebastiao,) from the series “Pictures of Garbage.”The subject was one of the “catadores,” the workers who picked through a Brazilian landfill for recyclables.

It’s both a playful introduction to Muniz’s oeuvre and a chance for readers to rethink what they believe art to be. Ages 8–12. (Oct.) DETAILS share BUY THIS BOOK ...

Vik Muniz calls his photographs “delusions,” and observing one of these large-scale prints it is, at times, tricky to figure out what you’re looking at.

For instance, “Vik Muniz” will include prints from his “Pictures of Garbage” series, for which Muniz worked with pickers from an enormous Rio de Janeiro landfill to construct images using ...