An-My Lê Quotes

An-My Lê is a Vietnamese American photographer, and professor at Bard College.She is a 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship , the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Award , and the Tiffany Comfort Foundation Fellowship .Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium; MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK; Dia, Beacon, New York; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and MoMA PS1, New York. Her work was featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Wikipedia

✵ 1960

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Famous An-My Lê Quotes

“At this time of crisis, I find great comfort in returning to nature, the wilderness, the richness and vast scale of the land. It has shaped the American identity; circling back to the landscape gives me hope for the future.”

Interview with ARTNews (March 3, 2020)

“One thing great journalists and artists have in common is a desire to be surprised, to find yourself with way more than you bargained for when you began an inquiry with little more than a sense of intuition.”

Interview with the Art Newspaper (August 13, 2020)

“Landscape, at its best, is not a narrow category. It is a source of surprise. It allows for the sudden assertion of a place, like an unexpected time signature within a melody.”

Interview with the Art Newspaper (August 13, 2020)

“I think anyone can make one, two great photographs. It is the endeavor, the sustained effort and exploration of an idea or a subject that is more significant.”

Interview with Daylight Books (1 October 2017)

“The one constant in my life is the landscape, in a broad sense of the word. I love the openness of the land and worry about how we’ve built our lives upon it, how little we maintain it, and how we assault it. It’s one reason for me to want to photograph it.”

Interview with ARTNews (3 March 2020)

“I certainly want to give my viewer the ability to “step into” an image and have a physical and mental experience, so it is necessary that the print be large enough; for me, that’s fifty to sixty inches wide, which is rather modest.”

Interview with ARTNews (3 March 2020)

“Memories are ever shifting when you live in exile.”

Interview with the Art Newspaper (13 August 2020)

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