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Life and Education:

An My Le was born in Saigon, Southern Vietnam in 1960. In 1975, she with her family moved to the United States as political refugee. She got her BAS and MS degrees in biology from Stanford University in 1981 and 1985. After that year, she designed to her transition from biology to artist, she told that she really didn’t know what she should do. “When a younger of immigrant, she knew she should do something that would be more practical. As her brothers become engineers and went to business school, of her mind that job would boring for her to choose.” She changes her mind to become artist and got MFA from Yale School of Art in 1933. Her both parents are professors. Her father is an American Studies professor in Saigon. Her mother was an English Literature professor. They went to university in France. She grew up in this atmosphere where was the highest regard for education. She isn’t live in Vietnam during the war. In 1968, Vietnam began had a war and her mother got received a fellowship to go to France and her mother took three children to Paris and her father stayed in Vietnam as a guarantor. In 1973, they came back to Vietnam for one year and half before the war ended. They came to United State for after that. Work: She loves nineteenth century landscape photography. Her favorite artist was Timothy O’Sullivan, Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray. She loves the Civil War photographers. Her work usually about the war and used black and white into pictures to made it old like as long time ago. Scale is important to her because it shows how insignificant. An My Le’s photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and representation of war.

Projects: She did about a war in Vietnam at around time 1994-1998, a war – torn countryside is reconciled with the contemporary landscape was called “Small Wars in 1999-2002". She did 29 Palm on show at the Murray Guy gallery in New York in 2004. It’s about documentary photographs of soldiers training in the Californian by the Vietnamese born American artist. When during 2.9 Palms in one of the only Marine training sites to use live fire, few signs of it in these images. Her shots are artfully and composed to pass for documentary. The shot into landscape with wisps of smoke, they eye can really see the view exactly what it’s be. United States Marines preparing for deployment play act scenarios in virtual Middle East in the California desert. Formal traditions of documentary and staged photography. An’s work explores the disjunction between wars as historical events and the representation of war in contemporary entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness.

Galleries: She had three show at gallery were production still from the “Art in the Twenty-First Century” Season 4 episode, “Protest,” 2007 had 24 images. Second was Artwork Survey: 2000s had 20 images. “Small Wars 1999-2002. Third was Artwork Survey: 1990s had 13 images. “Untitled, Nam Ha 1994.