Jacynthe Loves Orange Juice

Object Details

Artist

Vik Muniz, born Sao Paulo, Brazil 1961

Sitter

unidentified

Exhibition Label

Vik Muniz began each portrait in this series by making a snapshot. Using this as a reference, he drew its subject using unconventional materials such as chocolate and sugar, and then photographed the result. His Sugar Children series consists of photographs of drawings he made in white sugar on black paper of children whose parents and grandparents worked on a sugar plantation on the island of Saint Kitts, West Indies.

A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013

Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

1996

Object number

1998.31.2

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Photography-Photoprint

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm.)

See more items in

Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department

Graphic Arts

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic

African American

Figure female\child\bust

Portrait female\Jacynthe

Record ID

saam_1998.31.2

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk71574bcfe-10b2-4f01-82b8-43a59118b302