Wednesday 3 October 2012

MỘT NGƯỜI VIỆT NAM ĐƯỢC GIẢI "THIÊN TÀI" MAC ARTHUR FELLOW : MY-AN LÊ (MacArthur Foundation)







Bà An-My Lê, nhà nhiếp ảnh và giáo sư về nhiếp ảnh tại đại học Bard, Nữu Ước, được vinh danh là MacArthur Fellow 2012.
Đây là một phần thưởng lớn do tổ chức MacArthur Foundation trao hàng năm cho những nhà sáng tạo xuất sắc trong nhiều lĩnh vực khoa học, nghệ thuật. Giải có giá trị 500.000 USD được trao thành nhiều lần trong 5 năm, người được giải hoàn toàn tự do sử dụng cho hoạt động sáng tạo của mình.
Bà An-My Lê được vinh danh vì những tấm ảnh chụp phong cảnh bị các hoạt động chiến tranh làm thay đổi diện mạo, làm lu mờ làn ranh giữa thực và ảo, với nhiều tầng nghĩa.




By Freeman staff  and Associated Press
Published: Tuesday, October 02, 2012

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Photographer An-My Lê, a Bard College professor, has been named a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.

Lê is among 23 recipients of this year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius grants,” the winners of which get  $500,000 each.

“I am so appreciative of this award,” Lê said in a press release issued by Bard. “... I was totally thrilled.”

“There is no more brilliant or courageous original artist using the medium of photography in her generation,” Bard College President Leon Botstein said in the press release. “We are very proud.”

The college said Lê is the 11th Bard faculty member to be honored with a MacArthur fellowship.

The $500,000, five-year grants received by MacArthur fellows have no conditions — recipients may use the money as they see fit. Nominated anonymously by leaders in their respective fields and not notified of their candidacies ahead of time, the recipients learn of their selection only when they receive a call from the MacArthur Foundation days before the public announcement.

The grants give the recipients the freedom to pursue their creative visions, and they don’t have to report how they spend the money.

The winners work in fields ranging from medicine and science to the arts and journalism.



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An-My Lê
Photographer
Professor, Department of Photography
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Age: 52

Published October 2, 2012



An-My Lê is an artist whose photographs of landscapes transformed by war or other forms of military activity blur the boundaries between fact and fiction and are rich with layers of meaning. A refugee from Vietnam and resident of the United States since 1975, much of Lê’s work is inspired by her own experience of war and dislocation. From black and white images of her native Vietnam taken on a return visit in 1994 to pictures of Vietnam War battle re-enactments in rural America, her photographs straddle the documentary and the conceptual, creating a neutral perspective that brings the essential ambiguity of the medium to the fore. In her series 29 Palms (2003–2004), Lê documents American soldiers training in a desert in Southern California before their deployment to Iraq. She focuses her camera alternately on young recruits and the harsh terrain in which they practice their drills, lending an obvious artificiality to the photographs that invites speculation about the romance and myth of contemporary warfare. Currently, Lê is documenting the U.S. military’s presence at sites around the world where personnel are undertaking training missions, patrolling international waterways, and offering humanitarian aid. An additional series in progress explores the ongoing ties between Vietnamese nationals who have migrated to southern Louisiana over the past twenty-five years and their homeland in the Mekong Delta. Approaching the subjects of war and landscape from new and powerful perspectives, this accomplished photographer continues to experiment and contribute profoundly to the evolution of her medium.

An-My Lê received B.A.S. (1981) and M.S. (1985) degrees from Stanford University and an M.F.A. (1993) from Yale University. Since 1998, she has been affiliated with Bard College, where she is currently a professor in the Department of Photography. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.







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