{"id":448,"date":"2013-10-12T16:31:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T20:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2013-11-11T00:46:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T05:46:03","slug":"an-me-le-in-conversation-with-bma-curataor-ann-shafer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"An-My Le in conversation with BMA curataor Ann Shafer"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the subtleties eventually that become essential.<\/em> — Jon Cone<\/p>\n

Just returned from an artist talk at MICA between An-My Le (pronounced ann-mee lay) and BMA associate curator Ann Shafer. \u00a0Le uses a 4 x 5 view “camera to investigate multi-layered ideas about war and the military…with quiet nuance.” \u00a0She won the MacArthur Foundation “genus grant” in 2012 and numerous other awards. \u00a0The exhibition of about 20 images is currently in the “Front Room” at the BMA (Ms. Shafer noted that although there is construction around the museum, it is open).<\/p>\n

The images are all non-combat images, so different from what might be expected from war and military images. \u00a0As Ms. Shafer pointed out, the vast majority of military personnel and operations are not directly involved in combat.<\/p>\n

There were images from numerous venues including Vietnam, war reenactments, military bases and war ships. \u00a0Many of the images shown can be found at\u00a0An-My Le Small Wars<\/a>, although not all of the images at this site were hers.<\/p>\n

I liked her portraits best. They seemed to convey a “sense” of the subjects.\u00a0They let me feel like I could connect with the subjects if I ever met them.<\/p>\n

I found some of the other images to be too “quietly nuanced” for my untrained eye, although several other images were outstanding. One that Ms. Shafer noted was her favorite showed a wooden lounge chair adjacent to a table with machine gun on what appeared to be the back end of boat looking out to sea. \u00a0The combination of the mundane furniture and the machine gun in the unlikely setting was quite striking. \u00a0An image of a helicopter at the horizon, coming toward the photographer was also eye-catching and noteworthy for having been taken with a view camera. \u00a0I definitely plan to visit the BMA for a closer viewing of Ms. Le’s images.<\/p>\n

Ann Shafer will be at the Baltimore Camera club on Thursday, Oct. 17 to talk about the exhibition. \u00a0She is very knowledgeable about both Ms. Le. and the substance and content of the photographs. I believe that anyone who attends will have an opportunity to get a better understanding of Ms. Le’s work and intent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the subtleties eventually that become essential. — Jon Cone Just returned from an artist talk at MICA between An-My Le (pronounced ann-mee lay) and BMA associate curator Ann Shafer. \u00a0Le uses a 4 x 5 view “camera to investigate … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-7e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}