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An-My Lê

29 Palms: Corporal Hoepper

Description

Maker

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

Title

29 Palms: Corporal Hoepper

Year

2003-2004

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink

Supports

Dimensions

66 x 95.2 cm (26 x 37 1/2 inches) (frame)

Identification

Edition

2/5

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2007.7.1

Type

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

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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An-My Lê (American, b. Vietnam, b. 1960)
29 Palms: Corporal Hoepper, 2003-2004
Gelatin silver print
66 x 95.2 cm (26 x 37 1/2 inches) (frame)
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 2007.7.1

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