The Artist Project: An-My Lê

Artist An-My Lê reflects on Eugène Atget's Cuisine in this episode of The Artist Project.

September 16, 2015

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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"There's a sense of care that goes into the preparation of a meal."

Artist An-My Lê reflects on Eugène Atget's "Cuisine" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
An-My Lê, born in 1960 in Vietnam, is an American photographer.

Black and white photograph of a swamp with bushes blurred by the wind in the foreground and a house in the background

An-My Lê (American, born Vietnam, Saigon 1960)

Dong Thap, Southern Vietnam, 1994

Gelatin silver print; 15 7/8 × 22 5/8 in. (40.3 × 57.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1998 (1998.251) © An-My Lê

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