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An-My Lê đô-mi-nô

art of the baggage we bring to photography, compared to other media like painting or sculpture, derives from the fact that photography seems to occupy a higher moral register than other representational media in its putative ability to objectively “tell the truth.” Vietnamese-American artist An-My Le astutely recognizes the expectations we bring to bear on photography and, accordingly, constructs photographs that are not exactly what they seem. In “?o-mi-no,”

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