Vietnamese culture : Contemporary art - Culture, photography
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Minh Bui & Chi D. Nguyen
Vu Cao Dam (b. 1908): a sculptor as well as painter.
Graduate of Indochina School of Fine Arts 1931.
Nguyen Thi Kim (b. 1917): One of the pioneer female sculptor
of Viet Nam.
Diem Phung Thi (b. 1920): Woman sculptor noted for her
modern styling using different modules in the assembly and
mutual replacement of form in her work. Dinh Ru (b. 1937),
nicknamed Ny Ny Ran, has been esteemed as one of wood
sculptors who preserved the tradition of Cham Roi.
Huu Tu Hoai (b. 1940)
Phan Gia Huong (b. 1951)
Nguyen Hai Nguyen (b. 1965)
Darlene Nguyen-Ely: A modern and abstract wood sculptor.
Many of her works are displayed in various art museums and
public exhibitions throughout the US. In Viet Nam, the
photo is meant to duplicate the event itself, to transport
both the photographer and the viewer back to the very
occurrence that prompted the photographer to press the
shutter. This means photographing is more an act of
conceiving-even preconceiving-rather than perceiving; of
confirming rather than exploring. If there is a
transformation at all, it is aimed at making the image more
spiritual than temporal.
The arrangement of elements in an image is strongly attuned
to the hierarchical structure and fabric of traditional
Vietnamese religion and politics, which is to say,
ultimately Confucian in origin. That which is important is
immediately evident; the viewer's focus is clearly directed.
A sense of order is built in, the image is uncluttered by
competing interests. In conjunction with this, photographs
are strongly symbolic, and this dovetails with a definite
romantic temperament which tends to infuse universal meaning
with specific fact. Whereas a Western photographer might
make a highly personal picture of his mother loaded with
autobiographical content and through the specific imply the
general, his Vietnamese counterpart would work contrarily.
Rather than photograph his own mother, Vietnamese
photographers would search until they have found an
emblematic example of motherhood, and, conceivably, title it
My Mother. This image would begin an iconographic
representation through which the personal is recognized.
references: "Vietnamese Photography Comes Into Focus", Abby
Robinson, Asian Art News, March/April 1997
Le Vuong (b. 1918): Distinguished documentary photographer
and one of the founding members of the Museum of Fine Arts
in Ha Noi.
Nguyen Cao Dam, Tran Cao Linh (1925-1996): Two venerable
deans of the photographic movement in South Viet Nam in
the50s/60s. Both were members of many honored photographic
societies and winners of numerous prestigious prizes.
Nguyen Ngoc Hanh: An accomplished photo-journalist of the
South Viet Nam Armed Forces during the 60s/70s.
Contemporary Photographers: Hoang Thinh (b. 1942) Doan
Thi Tho (b. 1943)
Dong Duc Thanh
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