{"product_id":"an-my-le-9781597115773","title":"An-My Le","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe twentieth anniversary edition of An-My Le's acclaimed first book \u003ci\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, reissued with five new images and an afterword by Ocean Vuong.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the past three decades, An-My Le has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power, probing the tension between experience and storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2005, \u003ci\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/i\u003e brings together three interconnected series. In \u003ci\u003eViet Nam\u003c\/i\u003e, Le returns to the country she left in her teens and attempts to reconcile memories of her childhood home with the contemporary landscape; in \u003ci\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, she engages a small community of Vietnam War reenactors; and in \u003ci\u003e29 Palms\u003c\/i\u003e, she documents the preparations of marines in the California desert as they undergo training for conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taken together, this trilogy brilliantly presents a complexly layered exploration of the issues surrounding landscape, memory, and the representation of violence and war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith great precision and clarity, Le is able to evoke the work of nineteenth-century landscapes as well as that of the New Topographics. By weaving in her own personal narrative of refuge and return, she pushes beyond both to produce a uniquely revelatory body of work. The twentieth anniversary edition of \u003ci\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a lush reissue of the original, with five additional images and a new afterword by Ocean Vuong, who discusses how these bodies of work resonate twenty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423781830892,"sku":"9781597115773","price":115.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/61nyQ6d5AnL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774430358","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/an-my-le-9781597115773","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}