Vik Muniz drew portraits of the children of sugar cane workers he met on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts using sugar crystals on black paper, which he then photographed for the series he called “The Sugar Children.” As he wipes the paper clean after creating each image and begins again, his actions and his subjects’ lives take on symbolic value, suggesting that generations of cane workers have been consumed by the sugar industry.
- Title
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Valentina, the Fastest
- Artist
- Date
- 1996
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm.)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum purchase made possible by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
- Mediums Description
- gelatin silver print
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Figure female – child – bust
- Object Number
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1998.31.5
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
