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An-My Lê

29 Palms: Corporal Hoepper, 2003-2004

Description

Maker

Title

29 Palms: Corporal Hoepper

Year

2003-2004

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

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

Identification

Edition

2/5

Type

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2007.7.1

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

The day the [Iraq] war started I was extremely distraught. I thought about all the consequences of war, the young men and women shipping out and the effect it would have on them, their families, and their communities. I was still trying to deal with what happened to me three decades ago in Vietnam. Now a new set of young people were being sent abroad and given a complicated history they are going to have to deal with for the rest of their lives.

I tried to make some pictures that day, but I just couldn’t find anything. . . . When I saw photographs of the Marines training in the high desert near Joshua Tree National Park, I got impatient. I decided to just go to California. –An-My Lê

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