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Tommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter weaves together self-portraits and
classically bucolic landscapes punctuated by the traces of East
Asian stories embedded in the topography of the American South. In
this first major monograph, featuring almost a decade of work,
Tommy Kha explores the highly personal psycho-geography of his
hometown. As the artist states, "Memphis has become, for me, not
only the place where I was raised but an active borderland between
fantasy and memory, nostalgia and history, nonfiction and
mythology." Memphis is where his mother, fleeing Vietnam in the
early 1980s, settled, along with his extended family. Throughout
the work, his mother emerges as a recurring character, sometimes
the subject of quiet photographic study, and in others, a
collaborative muse. "I'm a cut of my mom," Kha asserts, "Every
photograph I make of her is a Half Self-Portrait." In snapshots
drawn from a family album that serves as the one record of her
journey to the United States, she is the source of nostalgia and
barely captured memory. In assembling a visual account of the
struggle to find his own voice and narrate the fragmented history
of his family, Kha challenges the cultural amnesia around Asian
lives and experiences in recent American histories. Acclaimed
author Hua Hsu contributes an engaging essay, "People Need to Smile
More," and MacArthur Fellow An-My Le conducts an incisive
conversation with Kha that delves into his family history and
artistic strategies. Tommy Kha: Half, Full, Quarter is the result
of the Next Step Award, a partnership between Aperture and Baxter
St at the Camera Club of New York, in partnership with the 7|G
Foundation. An exhibition of the work will open at Baxter St in New
York in February 2023.
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An-My Le: On Contested Terrain (Paperback)
An-my Le; From an idea by Danleers; Text written by David Finkel, Lisa Sutcliffe; Interview of Viet Thanh Nguyen, …
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Discovery Miles 13 800
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On Contested Terrain is published on the occasion of the first
comprehensive exhibition of An-My Le's work, organized by the
Carnegie Museum of Art. Throughout her career, Le has photographed
sites of former battlefields, spaces reserved for training for or
reenacting war, and the noncombatant roles of active service
members. She is part of a lineage of photographers who have adapted
the conventions of landscape photography to address the human
traces of history and conflict, but is one of the few who have
experienced the sights and sounds associated with growing up in a
warzone. The publication includes selections from Viet Nam
(1994-98), a series made on Le's return, twenty years after her
family was evacuated by the US military and 29 Palms (2003-4), made
on the eponymous military base built as a training ground during
the Iraq War. It will also include many new and
never-before-published images. Texts by curators Dan Leers and Lisa
Sutcliffe and an interview between Le and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Viet Thanh Nguyen, address how Le's work complicates the
landscapes of conflict that have long informed American identity.
A wide-ranging retrospective that reveals a master printer's own
photographs to be technically brilliant work of remarkable breadth
and complexity This book presents the first in-depth survey of
photographs by Richard Benson (1943-2017), who approached
photography as a thrilling set of technical challenges and used the
medium to craft profound depictions of people, the spaces of their
lives and work, and the products of their labor. An essay by
curator Peter Barberie interweaves examination of Benson's
photographic practices with the story of his ideas, writing, and
reproductive printing, while photographer An-My Le, Benson's former
student, offers her perspective on his teaching, family life, and
art. The book begins with his stunning darkroom prints in silver
and platinum and follows his trajectory toward extraordinary
digital photography, culminating in later color prints that are at
once elegant and garish, representing the contemporary world in
vivid detail. Benson's democratic eye also extended to human
subjects: he photographed loved ones and strangers with
extraordinary attention, and directed the same gaze to the
buildings and landscapes entwined with individual lives. Published
in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibition
Schedule: Philadelphia Museum of Art (October 3, 2021-January 23,
2022)
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Staging Disorder (Paperback)
Christopher Stewart, Esther Teichmann; Contributions by David Campany, Howard Caygill, Jennifer Good, …
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Discovery Miles 6 820
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The concept of 'staging disorder' looks not to how photographers
have staged disordered reality themselves, but rather to how these
artists have recognised and responded to a phenomenon of staging
that already exists in the world. Military simulations of rooms,
houses, planes, streets and whole fake towns in different parts of
the globe provoke a series of questions concerning the nature of
truth as it manifests itself in current photographic practice,
drawing from Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin's Chicago, 2007;
Claudio Hils' Red Land Blue Land, 2000; Richard Mosse's Airside,
2007; Sarah Pickering's Public Order, 2002 - 2005; and Christopher
Stewarts' Kill House, 2005. In highlighting the resonance that
these five projects have with one another, the publication develops
a thesis on contemporary photography at a point when we are
currently witnessing a shift away from a critical discourse that
has been preoccupied by theoretical concerns related to artifice
and illusion. Staging Disorder sits alongside an exhibition and
symposium curated by Christopher Stewart (Associate Professor in
Photography, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Built Environment,
University of Technology Sydney) and Dr Esther Teichmann (Senior
Lecturer in Photography, LCC, UAL). The exhibition will be held in
the galleries of the London College of Communication and will run
from January to March 2015, with a symposium taking place in late
January.
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