Danh Vo

Archive of Dr. Joseph M. Carrier

1962-1973, 2010

The photographs were originally part of an extensive archive that Vo received from a retired US military consultant, Joseph M. Carrier, who was stationed in Vietnam during the war and recorded everyday life expressing the subtle homoerotic fascination of a white man in a strange country. Acting as a kind of surrogate autobiography Carrier’s photos come to fill out the gaps in Vo’s private documentation, and simply by virtue of their change in ownership the photographs themselves come to represent a more universal story of identity, immigration, and loss.

Medium

Set of 24, Gravure

Dimensions

Various Size