{"product_id":"an-my-le-small-wars","title":"An-My Lê: Small Wars","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the past three decades, An-My Lê has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power, probing the tension between experience and storytelling. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2005, \u003ci\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/i\u003e brings together three interconnected series. In \u003ci\u003eViêt Nam\u003c\/i\u003e, Lê returns to the country she left in her teens and attempts to reconcile memories of her childhood home with the contemporary landscape; in \u003ci\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, she engages a small community of Vietnam War reenactors; and in \u003ci\u003e29 Palms\u003c\/i\u003e, she documents the preparations of marines in the California desert as they undergo training for conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taken together, this trilogy brilliantly presents a complexly layered exploration of the issues surrounding landscape, memory, and the representation of violence and war. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith great precision and clarity, Lê is able to evoke the work of nineteenth-century landscapes as well as that of the New Topographics—but by weaving in her own personal narrative of refuge and return, she pushes beyond both to produce a uniquely revelatory body of work. The twentieth anniversary edition of \u003ci\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a lush reissue of the original, with five additional images and a new afterword by Ocean Vuong, who discusses how these bodies of work resonate twenty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Aperture\u003cbr\u003e2024\u003cbr\u003eUS\u003cbr\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e11.75 x 8.75 x 1.5 inches\u003cbr\u003e144 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555682193465,"sku":"210000003293","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/an-my-le-small-wars.jpg?v=1790279854","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/an-my-le-small-wars","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}