{"id":1865,"date":"2024-05-22T18:39:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2024-05-22T21:11:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T21:11:54","slug":"photographer-an-my-le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/2024\/05\/22\/photographer-an-my-le\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer An-My L\u00ea Documents The Experiences And Landscapes Of War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An-My L\u00ea is a contemporary photographer who primarily focuses on documenting the experiences and landscapes of war. Unlike the photojournalist, who instantly captures the combat and action of war, L\u00ea uses a large format camera to take richly detailed and classically framed photographs that record war&#8217;s rehearsals and memories. Her work portrays a different set of temporalities\u2014anticipation, waiting, and recollection\u2014and intertwines the real and the imagined<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><em>Untitled (Vietnam)<\/em><\/em> (1994-1998)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Though born in Saigon, L\u00ea immigrated to the United States as a political refugee in 1975, the last year of the Vietnam War. Her own displacement from Vietnam, as well as her trove of personal memories layered upon popular representations of her former home, inspired her first major photographic project,&nbsp;<em>Untitled (Vietnam)<\/em>&nbsp;(1994-1998). For this body of work, L\u00ea traveled back to Vietnam and documented the contemporary landscape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-gai-lai-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1869 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-gai-lai-thumb.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-gai-lai-thumb-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-gai-lai-thumb-430x300.jpg 430w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-gai-lai-thumb-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-gai-lai-thumb-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-gai-lai-thumb-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-gai-lai-thumb-450x314.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">An-My L\u00ea (Vietnamese, b. 1960)<br><em><strong>Untitled, Gai Lai,<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em>1994<br>Silver gelatin print<br>20 x 24 in.<br>The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art, Gift of Barbara &#8217;68 and Theodore &#8217;68 Alfond, 2013.34.87. Image courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Her immaculate and spare photographs of crumbling buildings, a burning field, or a boy aiming a slingshot skyward invite myriad and oblique references to war. In&nbsp;<em>Untitled, Gai Lai&nbsp;<\/em>(1994), toy airplanes attached to long sticks and hoisted above a roof like television antennae seem to mime wartime air strikes or perhaps serve as a protective talisman against such attacks. L\u00ea&#8217;s series documents and envisages the traces of war in their physical, social, and psychic dimensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-ho-chi-minh-city-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1870 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-ho-chi-minh-city-thumb.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-ho-chi-minh-city-thumb-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-ho-chi-minh-city-thumb-412x300.jpg 412w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-ho-chi-minh-city-thumb-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-ho-chi-minh-city-thumb-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-ho-chi-minh-city-thumb-200x146.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-untitled-ho-chi-minh-city-thumb-450x328.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">An-My L\u00ea (Vietnamese, b. 1960)<br><em><strong>Untitled, Ho Chi Minh City,<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em>1995<br>Silver gelatin print<br>20 x 24 in.<br>The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art, Gift of Barbara &#8217;68 and Theodore &#8217;68 Alfond, 2013.34.86. Image courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Small Wars&nbsp;<\/em>Series (1999-2002)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-small-wars-rescue-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1867 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-small-wars-rescue-thumb.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-small-wars-rescue-thumb-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-small-wars-rescue-thumb-429x300.jpg 429w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-small-wars-rescue-thumb-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-small-wars-rescue-thumb-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-small-wars-rescue-thumb-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-small-wars-rescue-thumb-450x315.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">An-My L\u00ea (Vietnamese, b. 1960)<br><em><strong>Small Wars (Rescue),<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em>1999\u20132002<br>Silver gelatin print<br>26 1\/2 x 38 x 1 1\/2<br>The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art, Gift of Barbara &#8217;68 and Theodore &#8217;68 Alfond, 2013.34.85. Image courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Her next two photographic projects drew more explicitly on imagination and displacement, specifically as they operate in re-enactments and pre-enactments. Her&nbsp;<em>Small Wars&nbsp;<\/em>series (1999-2002) centered on Vietnam War re-enactors in North Carolina and Virginia, who carefully re-stage the daily life and battles of soldiers. L\u00ea photographed these re-enactments over two summers. As a condition of access, her participation was required, and she was cast as a Viet Cong captured by American GIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>29 Palms: Force Recon<\/em> (2003 -2004)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>L\u00ea&#8217;s series,&nbsp;<em>29 Palms: Force Recon<\/em>&nbsp;(2003-2004), documented military training at a virtual \u201cMiddle East\u201d erected in the California desert. In the arid landscape, amid a series of structures built to resemble neighborhoods in Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers trained for future combat missions in distant lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-29palms-force-recon-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1866 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-29palms-force-recon-thumb.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-29palms-force-recon-thumb-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-29palms-force-recon-thumb-431x300.jpg 431w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-29palms-force-recon-thumb-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-29palms-force-recon-thumb-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-29palms-force-recon-thumb-200x139.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/le-an-my-29palms-force-recon-thumb-450x313.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">An-My L\u00ea (Vietnamese, b. 1960)<br><em><strong>29 Palms: Force Recon<\/strong>,&nbsp;<\/em>2003\u20132004<br>Silver gelatin print<br>26 1\/2 x 38 x 1 1\/2 in.<br>The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art, Gift of Barbara &#8217;68 and Theodore &#8217;68 Alfond, 2013.34.84. Image courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Her picturesque compositions of the enacted war scenes highlight their constructed nature and generate a contemplative, critical distance from the acts of war. By exploring displacements in space and time \u2014 whether 1970s Vietnam in the contemporary South or the Middle East outside of Los Angeles \u2014 L\u00ea expresses her personal experiences, which have been dramatically shaped by the processes of war.&nbsp;<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/qgorman\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/Temp2_Art%20for%20Rollins%20I%20text.zip\/Art%20for%20Rollins%20I%20text\/Le,%20An-My.doc#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>&nbsp;Her photography signals the multitude of ways that the real and the imagined merge in the acts and memories of wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/qgorman\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/Temp2_Art%20for%20Rollins%20I%20text.zip\/Art%20for%20Rollins%20I%20text\/Le,%20An-My.doc#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>Rooted in histories of artistic appropriation and performance, the re-enactment has emerged as a key cultural form of the 21st century, used by artists for two common critical purposes: to \u201crewrite\u201d history by offering a forum for other viewpoints traditionally kept outside the \u201cgrand narratives\u201d and to deconstruct the images and accounts that have comprised these narratives. For more on re-enactments, see Robert Blackson, \u201cOnce More . . . With Feeling: Reenactment in Contemporary Art and Culture,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Art Journal<\/em>&nbsp;66: 1 (Spring 2007): 28-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art Book Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:27% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-636x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1534 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-636x1024.jpg 636w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-768x1236.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-954x1536.jpg 954w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-100x161.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-150x241.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-200x322.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-300x483.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-450x724.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-600x966.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy-900x1449.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Art-for-Rollins-books-at-the-Alfond-Inn-copy.jpg 1258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>This excerpt by Ruth Erickson <\/strong>is from <em>Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art<\/em> book series. 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