An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain

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An-My Le: On Contested Terrain offers the first comprehensive survey of the Vietnamese American artist An-My Le, exploring her thirty-year career that intertwines personal history with broader reflections on war. The book features selections from her acclaimed series like Viet Nam, Small Wars, 29 Palms, and Events Ashore, alongside unseen works including photographs of the US-Mexico border and early projects. Essays and a dialogue deepen the understanding of how Le's nuanced photography challenges conventional narratives of conflict and shapes American identity.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, photography, and nuanced examinations of war and conflict. It will particularly appeal to those engaged with cultural studies, American history, and Vietnamese American perspectives.

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An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain is the first comprehensive survey of the Vietnamese American artist, published on the occasion of a major exhibition organised by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Drawing, in part, from her own experiences of the Vietnam War, Lê has created a body of work committed to expanding and complicating our understanding of the activities and motivations behind conflict and war. Throughout her thirty-year career, Lê has photographed noncombatant roles of active-duty service members, often on the sites of former battlefields, including those reserved for training or the re-enactment of war, and those created as film sets.

This publication includes selections from her well-known series Viet Nam, Small Wars, 29 Palms, and Events Ashore, in addition to never-before-seen images, including recent photographs from the US-Mexico border, formative early work, and lesser-known projects.

Essays by the organising curator Dan Leers and curator Lisa J. Sutcliffe, as well as a dialogue between Lê and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, address the ways in which Lê's quiet, nuanced work complicates the landscapes of conflict that have long informed American identity.

Copublished by Aperture and Carnegie Museum of Art.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781597114813

Publisher: Aperture

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 June 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Aperture

Illustration: 200 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Photographs by An-My Lê
From an idea by Dan Leers
Text by David Finkel
Text by Lisa Sutcliffe
Interviewee Viet Thanh Nguyen
Interviewee An-My Lê

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 235.0mm

Height: 266.0mm

Weight: 1020g

Pages: 288

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Arts & Culture Copublished by Aperture and Carnegie Museum of Art Non-Fiction

About the Author

An-My Lê's (born in Saigon, South Vietnam, 1960) work has been exhibited at such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lê has received many awards, including fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1996), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1997), and MacArthur Foundation (2012). She is a professor in the Department of Photography at Bard College. David Finkel is a journalist and author whose honors include a MacArthur fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize. Dan Leers is a curator of photography at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and organized the traveling exhibition An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain. Viet Thanh Nguyen is author of The Sympathizer (2015), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other awards. Lisa Sutcliffe is the Hertzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum.