An-My Lê’s Uncanny Images of War The Vietnamese-born photographer charts how conflict embeds itself in both physical and psychological terrains. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-my-les-uncanny-images-of-war For the ongoing project “Silent General,” Lê turned her lens to the mainland, travelling from the sites of Confederate monuments and border crossings along the Gulf Coast and Rio Grande…
An-My Lê on Vietnam, the Chaos of War, and the Tangibility of Memory An-My Lê speaks with Hilton Als about about how she uses photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power. via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/an-my-le-on-vietnam-the-chaos-of-war-and-the-tangibility-of-memory/ For the past two decades, An-My Lê has used photography to examine her personal history…
Juxtapoz Magazine – An-My Lê’s “The Silent General” Born in Saigon in 1960, as a child, An-My Lê spent several years in Paris, a city where her parents had lived and were married in the late 1950s. In 1… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/an-my-le-s-the-silent-general/ For her first solo exhibition in Paris, An-My Lê presents The Silent General at…
[contentcards url=”http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/05/22/article/159952320/an-my-le-a-life-in-exile/”] An-My Lê, a life in exile – The Eye of Photography The photographer An-My Lê practices her artistic craft in a manner that ostensibly belongs within the tradition of nineteenth-century landscape. Her negatives are composed with a large-format view camera (5-by-7) mounted on a tripod
Two Photographers Receive $500,000 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowships for 2012 | PDNPulse Photographers An-My Lê and Uta Barth are among the 23 artists, scientists, social scientists and scholars named MacArthur Fellows for 2012. Commonly called the “genius” grant, the fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation awards $500,000 over the course of via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/10/two-photographers-receive-500000-macarthur-genius-fellowships-for-2012.html Photographers An-My Lê…