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Pao Houa Her : my grandfather turned into a tiger ... and other illusions / [photographs by Pao Houa Her]
Fine Arts Library TR647.H465 A4 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Her, Pao Houa, 1982- artist, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Her, Pao Houa, 1982-.
- Her, Pao Houa.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Portrait photography.
- Hmong Americans--Portraits.
- Hmong Americans.
- art photography.
- Genre:
- photobooks.
- Photobooks.
- Physical Description:
- 123 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition
- Other Title:
- My grandfather turned into a tiger
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Aperture, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Pao Houa Her's compelling first monograph explores the fundamental concepts of home and belonging. Her's work draws inspiration from a myriad of sources: apocryphal family tales; portraits of the artist's community; and reimagined landscapes of home, invoking a cosmology grounded in the traditions and metaphors of the Hmong diasporic community" -- Back cover
- Contents:
- Plates
- Forest of beginnings / Mai Der Vang
- In conversation / Audrey Sands, Pao Houa Her
- Paj quam ntuj: Flowers of the sky / Kao Kalia Yang
- Confabulations, in search of Teb Chaw / Godfre Leung
- Pao Houa Her's magic of construction, dislocation, and illusion / Kong Pheng Pha
- Biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Image index
- Series descriptions
- Notes:
- Published in conjunction with the Next Step Award, a collaboration between Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, in partnership with 7IG Foundation.
- ISBN:
- 9781597115650
- 1597115657
- OCLC:
- 1420001493
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