An-My Lê, Fragment VII: High School Students Protesting Gun Violence, Washington Square Park, New York (2018). Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. ©2020 An-My Lê.
Photographer, Bard Professor An-My Lê on How Pictures Can Help Us Keep Up with a Rapidly Changing World
Professor An-My Lê’s photo series Silent General speaks to the current cultural moment: packed protests, fallen monuments, and anti-Trump graffiti echo the images filling our screens. “It’s eerie to see how some of the issues that unfolded when I started Silent General [in 2016] are now back at the forefront in an even more urgent way,” says Lê. “History doesn’t move through time in a straight line.”
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