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REFLECTIONS OF WAR, ONCE REMOVED
The \"Small Wars\" series is easily L's most complex and conflicted. Over four summers she was allowed to photograph re- enactments of Vietnam battles only if she agreed to participate in the action. It was disconcerting, but also empowering, she said, to be assigned the role of a Viet Cong sniper. The re-enactors, most of whom had never seen combat, were compulsive about getting the details right -- using period uniforms, weaponry, and equipment and staying true to the history of actual battles. Yet they fired blanks, not real bullets. The forests of Virginia are far removed from the dense jungles and varied terrain of Vietnam. The disconnect between reality and dramatization is not directly addressed, yet it is the overpowering theme. Many will naturally (perhaps fairly, perhaps not) view the re-enactments as a disturbing and pathetic theater of the absurd, but L resists what must have been a temptation to mock her subjects. The men are presented in a straightforward, nonjudgmental fashion, blending into the Virginia landscape. L's book Small Wars (Aperture, 2005) comprises three emotionally charged photographic series -- \"Vit Nam,\" \"Small Wars,\" and \"29 Palms,\" which attempt to divine the larger picture. The first is the result of her return to Vietnam after graduating from Yale University in 1993 and her subsequent struggle to come to grips with a country largely defined by a war that no longer exists. The second depicts enthusiasts who re-enact battles from the Vietnam War in the forests of Virginia. The last is the result of L's failed attempt to become an embedded photographer with the armed forces in the current conflicts in Iraq. Instead, she was allowed to photograph training exercises and war games in the California desert in preparation for combat.
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Hiroji Kubota : photographer
Hiroji Kubota Photographer, details the extraordinary life and world travels, spanning over fifty years, of a veteran Magnum photographer. This is the first comprehensive survey of a key Japanese photographer, and includes four hundred photographs.00Hiroji Kubota (born in Tokyo, 1939) began his career by assisting photographers Renâe Burri, Burt Glinn, and Elliott Erwitt on their visit to Japan in 1961. In 1965 he joined Magnum Photos, producing major bodies of work, many in book form, on the United States, Japan, China, North and South Korea, and Southeast Asia. His numerous publications include From Sea to Shining Sea: A Portrait of America (1992) and Out of the East: Transition and Tradition in Asia (1999). 00Exhibition: Aperture Gallery, New York, USA (04.11-23.12.2015).
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Peter Hujar : speed of life
Peter Hujar was a leading figure of the downtown New York scene of the 1970s and '80s. He is most well-known for his portraits of New York City's artists, musicians, writers, and performers, which feature characters such as Susan Sontag, William S. Burroughs, David Wojnarowicz, and Andy Warhol, and was admired for his completely uncompromising attitude toward work and life. Hujar was a consummate technician, and his portraits of people, animals, and landscapes, with their exquisite black-and-white tonalities, were extremely influential. Underappreciated during his lifetime, Hujar is now a revered icon of the lost downtown art scene, and his photographs are held in permanent collections around the world. Over 160 photographs are gathered in Peter Hujar: Speed of Life. Published alongside a major touring exhibition, this collection presents Hujar's famous portraiture as well as his lesser-known projects.
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