As of today's date, Vik Muniz is the fourth most-viewed artist of the 300
listed at Artnet online.
Vik is not only Brazilian, and the grown child of a lower middle-class family in Brazil, he's extremely up on the history of modern art. But most important, Vik was capable of bestowing instantaneous fame and riches on a previously anonymous, ex-labor-leader, a Brazilian "garbage-picker" named Tiao Santos who is the real star of the movie; and Vik took the time to do just that.
Santos was also the subject for Muniz's picture of Marat Sade murdered in his bathtub, see above.
Finally, since my powers are failing me so spectacularly now -- and my ability to locate artworks at Artnet online has diminished so much -- I won't waste time trying to include in this article artworks by Muniz which were not produced in the course of making Waste Land. Instead, I'll leave it to you, gentle readers, to find your fave works from the DVD and include them with your comments to this article, should you be so inclined.TA ! ! !