{"product_id":"an-my-le-book-bundle","title":"An-My Lê Book Bundle","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eOrders will ship by May 27, 2020. \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\nTo celebrate the release of \u003cem\u003eAn-My Lê: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Contested Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e, Aperture is offering an exclusive deal. For a special price of $80, you will receive a copy of \u003cem\u003eOn Contested Terrain,\u003c\/em\u003e plus a copy of \u003cem\u003eEvents Ashore\u003c\/em\u003e.\n\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn-My Lê: On Contested Terrain\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/em\u003eBy Dan Leers\nTexts by David Finkel and Lisa Sutcliffe\nDialogue with An-My Lê and Viet Thanh Nguyen\nCopublished by Aperture and the Carnegie Museum of Art\n\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003eAn-My Lê: On Contested Terrain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis the first comprehensive survey of the Vietnamese American artist, published on the occasion of a major exhibition organized by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Drawing, in part, from her own experiences of the Vietnam War, Lê has created a body of work committed to expanding and complicating our understanding of the activities and motivations behind conflict and war. Throughout her thirty-year career, Lê has photographed noncombatant roles of active-duty service members, often on the sites of former battlefields, including those reserved for training or the reenactment of war, and those created as film sets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW222973900 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003eThis publication includes selections from her well-known series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"SpellingError SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003eViêt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003e Nam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003e29 Palms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003eEvents Ashore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e in addition to never-before-seen images, including recent photographs from the US-Mexico border, formative early work, and lesser-known projects.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvents Ashore\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/em\u003ePhotographs by An-My Lê\nNotes by Geoff Dyer\n\n\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW222973900 BCX0\"\u003eAn-My Lê's first publication, \u003cem\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/em\u003e, examined the troubling beauty that both informs and binds Hollywood evocations and photojournalistic documents of conflict to Lê's childhood experiences in wartime Vietnam. \u003cem\u003eEvents Ashore \u003c\/em\u003econtinues her exploration of the American military, a pursuit both personal and civic. With this body of work, however, Lê emerges as a master colorist, employing the compositional precision and subtlety of palette of the large-format color negative to render the kaleidoscopic shifts of terrain and sudden intrusions of beauty, atmosphere and psychology within her observations of the military at work. \u003cem\u003eEvents Ashore\u003c\/em\u003e began when the artist was invited to photograph US naval ships preparing for deployment to Iraq, the first in a series of visits to battleships, humanitarian missions in Africa and Asia, training exercises, and scientific missions in the Arctic and Antarctic. As Lê explains, these trips allowed her to study close at hand the military's noncombat activities, becoming \"a launching point for an examination of the U.S. military on the global stage across oceans and borders as a symbol of conflict, an echo of the age of exploration, and an unlikely (and unsung) force in the unfolding environmental crisis This work is as much about my perspective and personal history as a political refugee from Vietnam as it is about the vast geopolitical forces and conflicts that shape these landscapes.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514133942406,"sku":"BB010u","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/114093_1_c2784851-e6aa-4ae3-88b6-d35e9e171dab.jpg?v=1761263780","url":"https:\/\/store.aperture.org\/products\/an-my-le-book-bundle","provider":"Aperture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}