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20141013
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Description for 20141013
Hardback. Offers a trilogy of tautly rendered examinations of the spectacle of war, memory, and landscape. This book presents an exploration of the American military, a pursuit both personal and civic. Num Pages: 168 pages, 125 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 342 x 27. Weight in Grams: 2044.
An-My Lê’s first publication, Small Wars, brought together three bodies of black-and-white work (Vietnam, Small Wars, and 29 Palms), offering a trilogy of tautly rendered examinations of the spectacle of war, memory, and landscape. With Events Ashore, Lê continues her exploration of the American military, a pursuit both personal and civic. With this body of work, however, Lê emerges as a master colorist, employing the large-format color negative to powerful effect to capture the sometimes surreal, often surprisingly beautiful vistas of the military at work, with an emphasis on descriptive and compositional precision and subtlety of palette. Events Ashore began ... Read more
An-My Lê’s first publication, Small Wars, brought together three bodies of black-and-white work (Vietnam, Small Wars, and 29 Palms), offering a trilogy of tautly rendered examinations of the spectacle of war, memory, and landscape. With Events Ashore, Lê continues her exploration of the American military, a pursuit both personal and civic. With this body of work, however, Lê emerges as a master colorist, employing the large-format color negative to powerful effect to capture the sometimes surreal, often surprisingly beautiful vistas of the military at work, with an emphasis on descriptive and compositional precision and subtlety of palette. Events Ashore began ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
An-My Lê: Events Ashore
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
2042g
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781597112994
SKU
V9781597112994
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About Hardback
An-My Lê received her BAS and MS degrees from Stanford University and an MFA from Yale University. She is currently a professor of photography at Bard College and is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2012, she became a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Her ... Read more
Reviews for 20141013
The speed, action and sense of peril common to news photographs of conflict are largely absent from her pictures. instead, readers get the impression of a massive force lumbering deliberatley across the globe, from Australia to Panama, Antarctica, Greenland and elsewhere.In Le's beautiful portraits, officers and other personnel appear placid, stoic, almost bored-another day at the office, keeping watch on ... Read more