Vik Muniz at New Britain Museum of American Art -- Part 2

This is Muniz's Migrant Mother, after Dorothea Lange's famous Depression-era photograph.

Muniz constructed it from black and white dots.

Muniz arrived in the USA in 1983.  One of his first purchases was a book of iconic photographs.  He produced his "copies" of his favorite images from memory, so there are deviations from the originals, and he blurred them, to give the effect one would have when seeing the images in newspapers.

These are six Muniz images of young Black men and women.

The closest images are based on mug shots of George Stinney, Jr.  Within the space of three months in 1944, Stinney was arrested, accused of the murder of two young white girls, convicted in minutes by an all-white jury, and executed in an electric chair. At fourteen years old, he was the youngest person to be executed in twentieth-century America. Stinney's conviction was vacated in 2014.

 Muniz's work is a photograph of a collage made from snapshots of white American families celebrating occasions, both grand and every day, in which Stinney was never able to take part.