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The Incredible Case of the Stack o' Wheats Murders: a limited edition folio by Les Krims
1972 · Photomechanical prints
Image: 3 1/4 × 4 15/16 in. (8.3 × 12.5 cm)
Sheet: 5 in. × 5 5/8 in. (12.7 × 14.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Les Krims
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Dream/Reality/Dream
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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Rooms
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976–1977
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Photographs of Women
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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Les Krims stages and photographs constructed narratives that collapse documentary observation into deliberately artificial scenarios, working in color and black-and-white to expose photography's constructed nature. His practice emerged in postwar American contexts, where he examined vernacular culture and domestic space as sites of formal experimentation and conceptual inquiry. The staging itself becomes the subject, questioning what a photograph can claim to represent.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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