Vik Muniz Discusses Leiter Photo With the Whitney
Vik Muniz Discusses Leiter Photo With the Whitney
As part of the Whitney Stories video series, the visual artist Vik Muniz talks about two 1950s photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection, “Shoe of the Shoeshine Boy” by Saul Leiter and “Metropolitan Life Insurance Building” by Robert Frank.
“My grandmother used to tell me when you meet people you have to look at their shoes,” Muniz says while discussing the Leiter image. “Because their shoes are so revealing of what they want to do, and what they want to be, and how they want to behave.”
