Untitled, Thanh-Hoa, 1998

Aperture offered this photograph by  An-My Lê on the occasion of the publication of her first monograph, Small Wars (Aperture, 2005). Untitled, Thanh-Hoa, 1998, is from her Vietnam series in which she constructed "autobiographical still lifes." Night Operations is taken from her 29 Palms series, in which she documents soldiers training for active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan in a desert-like terrain in Southern California.  

Gelatin-Silver Print
Edition of 40 + 4 AP
Image Size: 12 x 17 inches
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches
Signed and numbered by the artist

An-My Lê (b. 1960, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) came to the United States as a political refugee at age fifteen. She received a Master’s degree in Biology from Stanford University before earning an MFA in Photography at Yale University in 1993. Lê’s exhibitions include Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York (2004); Small Wars, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center (2002); and Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2001). She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Bard College and lives in New York City. An-My Lê is represented by the Murray Guy gallery in New York, among others.