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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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WA-00028004
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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
No image
Photographs of Women
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
- Artsy (bulk)Tier 1 · Institutional85%
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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.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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- MoMA2 publishedof 4 catalogued
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
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