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An-My Lê

29 Palms: Captain Folsom

Maker

An-My Lê (American, b. Vietnam, b. 1960)

Title

29 Palms: Captain Folsom

Year

2003-2004

Medium

  • gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • gelatin silver print

Materials

gelatin silver print

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Frame: 66 x 95.3 cm (26 x 37 1/2 inches)

Identification

Edition

2/5

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2007.7.2

Type

  • Photographs

Publications

  • Books

America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now

  • Books

Selected Works

Exhibition History

America in View
Landscape Photography 1865 to Now
Sep 21, 2012 – Jan 13, 2013

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An-my Lê’s image appears to document soldiers deployed in the Middle East, but instead records staged maneuvers at the Marine training camp in California for which her series “29 Palms” is titled. The harshness of the intense light and mountainous desert terrain and the documentary style of her black-and-white prints all sustain the fiction that these soldiers are in Iraq and Afghanistan rather than California. Shooting with a large format camera from a height and remove that captures the vast theater of activity in the landscape, she describes the scene with remarkable yet cool and detached detail. Photographing staged combat, Lê ultimately

stages a dialogue about a distant war with huge consequences for American culture and lives.

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An-My Lê (American, b. Vietnam, b. 1960)
29 Palms: Captain Folsom, 2003-2004
Gelatin silver print
Frame: 66 x 95.3 cm (26 x 37 1/2 inches)
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 2007.7.2

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