{"product_id":"small-wars","title":"Small Wars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe twentieth anniversary edition of An-My Lê’s acclaimed first book\u003ci\u003e Small Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, reissued with five new images and an afterword by Ocean Vuong.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-tab-span\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003eFor the past three decades, An-My Lê has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power, probing the tension between experience and storytelling. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-tab-span\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003eFirst published in 2005, \u003ci\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/i\u003e brings together three interconnected series. In \u003ci\u003eViêt Nam\u003c\/i\u003e, Lê returns to the country she left in her teens and attempts to reconcile memories of her childhood home with the contemporary landscape; in \u003ci\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, she engages a small community of Vietnam War reenactors; and in \u003ci\u003e29 Palms\u003c\/i\u003e, she documents the preparations of marines in the California desert as they undergo training for conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taken together, this trilogy brilliantly presents a complexly layered exploration of the issues surrounding landscape, memory, and the representation of violence and war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-tab-span\"\u003e\t\u003c\/span\u003eWith great precision and clarity, Lê is able to evoke the work of nineteenth-century landscapes as well as that of the New Topographics—but by weaving in her own personal narrative of refuge and return, she pushes beyond both to produce a uniquely revelatory body of work. The twentieth anniversary edition of \u003ci\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a lush reissue of the original, with five additional images and a new afterword by Ocean Vuong, who discusses how these bodies of work resonate twenty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57194600169854,"sku":"NW9781597115773","price":37.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781597115773.jpg?v=1778546931","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/small-wars","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}