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An-My Lê

29 Palms: Captain Folsom, 2003-2004

Description

Maker

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

Title

29 Palms: Captain Folsom

Year

2003-2004

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • gelatin silver print

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

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

Identification

Edition

2/5

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2007.7.2

Projects & Publications

Publications

America in View

Landscape Photography 1865 to Now

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

America in View

September 21, 2012 - January 13, 2013

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.

Related

An-My Lê

29 Palms: Corporal Hoepper, 2003-2004

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