Photography
Dylan Vitone, "Body Builders, Miami," 2009, printed 2012
- Item Number
- 48
- Estimated Value
- 2500 USD
- Opening Bid
- 1250 USD
Item Description
Dylan Vitone (American, b. 1978)
Body Builders, from Miami Project, 2009, printed 2012
Archival inkjet print
17 x 89 inches
Edition: 4/30
Signed and dated on back in pencil
Dylan Vitone is a documentary photographer who makes wide-format panoramic photographic collages, often reflecting his interest in communities that are often undergoing complex social changes.
This image was shot in Miami in 2009, along with other subjects including female bikini models, performers at a porn convention, an advertising fashion shoot and kids jumping off a pier into the ocean. Many of these images, like Body Builders, include people who are themselves armed with cameras and taking pictures at the event.
As Christopher Knight noted in his LA Times review published on October 28, 2010:
“That turns the scene into a delirious roundelay of voyeurism and display, self-conscious and otherwise. Even the pleasure of kids jumping off the pier partly comes from their apparent desire to show off… One result is a feeling of temporal fragility — of time's passage and the camera's deceits. A pageantry of beauty and fun becomes unexpectedly poignant.”
About The Artist
Dylan Vitone is an assistant professor in the School of Design, College of Fine Arts, at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA. He holds an MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.
The recipient of Silver Eye’s 2004 Fellowship award, Vitone's works are found in the collections of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; Carnegie Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others.
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