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.”
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.
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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