An-My L: Small Wars

The twentieth anniversary edition of An-My L’s acclaimed first book Small Wars, reissued with five new images and an afterword by Ocean Vuong.For the past three decades, An-My L has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power, probing the tension between experience and storytelling.First published in 2005, Small Wars brings together three interconnected series. In Vit Nam, L returns to the country she left in her teens and attempts to reconcile memories of her childhood home with the contemporary landscape; in Small Wars, she engages a small community of Vietnam War reenactors; and in 29 Palms, 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 a