Product details

Art.No:

99217

Author / Artist:

Lê, An-My

Title:

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Keyword:

Photographie, Militaria-allgemein

Binding / Picture Size:

OLwd. m. OU.

Publisher:

Aperture

Place of publishing:

New York

Year of publication:

2005

Book Details / Size:

Quer-8°, 128 S., zahlr. s/w-Abb.

Condition:

Description:

With an essay by Richard B. Woodward and an interview with the photographer.An-My Lê was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She was educated at Stanford University and at Yale University and has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Mac Arthur Foundation Fellowship (2012); the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2009); and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997), amongst others. Lê is currently the Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts at Bard College, New York.As a teenager Lê fled Vietnam with her family in 1975. They eventually settled in the United States as refugees. Her work often addresses the impact of war on culture and on the environment. Lê says her "main goal is to try to photograph landscape in such a way that it suggests a universal history, a personal history, a history of culture."Text: engl. [Bilder vom Krieg und das Warten auf die Schlacht.]