An-My Le: On Contested Terrain

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title An-My Le: On Contested Terrain
Authors and Contributors      Photographs by An-My Le
From an idea by Dan Leers
Text by David Finkel
Text by Lisa Sutcliffe
Interviewee Viet Thanh Nguyen
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 266,Width 235
Category/GenreIndividual photographers
ISBN/Barcode 9781597114813
ClassificationsDewey:770
Audience
General
Illustrations 200 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Aperture
Imprint Aperture
Publication Date 18 June 2020
Publication Country United States

Description

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Author Biography

An-My Le'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. Le 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 Le: 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.