Dong Thap, Southern Vietnam
Lê fled her native Saigon with her family in 1975, the final year of the Vietnam War, and eventually settled in the United States as a political refugee. After receiving her MFA in 1993, she returned to Vietnam to make poignant pictures such as this lyrical composition, which has the quality of a memory or dream.
Artwork Details
- Title: Dong Thap, Southern Vietnam
- Artist: An-My Lê (American, born Saigon, 1960)
- Date: 1994
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 40.3 x 57.4 cm (15 7/8 x 22 5/8 in. )
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1998
- Object Number: 1998.251
- Rights and Reproduction: © An-My Lê
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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