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La photographe vietnamienne An-My Lê a suivi pendant plusieurs mois le quotidien des militaires de la Marine américaine. Des exercices d'entraînement aux visites des navires sur place, des missions scientifiques en Arctique et en Antarctique aux missions humanitaires en Afrique et en Asie, elle s'appuie sur ce travail photographique pour révéler l'enjeu de ces interventions.
About the author
An-My Lê received her BAS and MS degrees from Stanford University and an MFA from Yale University. She is currently a professor of photography at Bard College and is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2012, she became a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Her work has been widely shown and collected internationally, including at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; and the Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, among others.Geoff Dyer is the author of "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, "among other novels, and several nonfiction books, including "Out of Sheer Rage". He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 for "Otherwise Known as the Human Condition". He lives in Los Angeles.
Summary
Offers a trilogy of tautly rendered examinations of the spectacle of war, memory, and landscape. This book presents an exploration of the American military, a pursuit both personal and civic.
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The speed, action and sense of peril common to news photographs of conflict are largely absent from her pictures. instead, readers get the impression of a massive force lumbering deliberatley across the globe, from Australia to Panama, Antarctica, Greenland and elsewhere.In Le's beautiful portraits, officers and other personnel appear placid, stoic, almost bored-another day at the office, keeping watch on a multi-billion-dollar aircraft carrier as it ambles through the Arabian Gulf.--Conor Risch"PDN" (12/01/2014)
