Friday, December 8, 2017

Christopher Ramirez review Binh Danh


Binh Danh is a photographer from Vietnam who was able to come over to America in 1979. One of his most famous pieces of work is “Life: Dead”, which is a series where Danh framed withered leaves with the imprinted images of fallen soldiers. This idea is very unique and beautiful as well as very powerful the way he is able to put the fallen soldiers on a withered leaf. A leaf which can be a sign of life combined with the image of a dead solider bringing the two together, life and death. The fact that it is a withered leaf makes it more powerful by having something, a leaf, that is a sign of life but in an almost dead state. Which combines the statement fallen but never forgotten since the leaf is not completely dead as are the soldiers, although dead they are never forgotten

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