Biography can be a red herring in visual art. For writers i… - An-My Lê

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Biography can be a red herring in visual art. For writers it’s a genre and a process. They organize life stories, and I imagine that the craft of biography or autobiography is largely about organizing facts in a compelling way. For me, biography is interchangeable with curiosity. My story has been valuable to my work only because it provided me with intense curiosity about certain situations, places, and sensations.

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An-My Lê (born 1960) is a Vietnamese-American photographer and professor at Bard College.

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