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Vu Cao Dam (b. 1908): a sculptor as well as painter. Graduate of Indochina School of Fine Arts 1931.
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Nguyen Thi Kim (b. 1917): One of the pioneer female sculptor of Viet Nam.
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Diem Phung Thi (b. 1920): Woman sculptor noted for her modern styling using different modules in the assembly and mutual replacement of form in her work.
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Dinh Ru (b. 1937), nicknamed Ny Ny Ran, has been esteemed as one of wood sculptors who preserved the tradition of Cham Roi.
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Huu Tu Hoai (b. 1940)
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Phan Gia Huong (b. 1951)
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Nguyen Hai Nguyen (b. 1965)
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Darlene Nguyen-Ely: A modern and abstract wood sculptor. Many of her works are displayed in various art museums and public exhibitions throughout the US. |
| (Heading photograph: Tran Cao Linh's Motherly Gesture - from Viet Nam My Country Forever) |
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In Viet Nam, the photo is meant to duplicate the event itself, to transport both the photographer and the viewer back to the very occurrence that prompted the photographer to press the shutter. This means photographing is more an act of conceiving-even preconceiving-rather than perceiving; of confirming rather than exploring. If there is a transformation at all, it is aimed at making the image more spiritual than temporal. The arrangement of elements in an image is strongly attuned to the hierarchical structure and fabric of traditional Vietnamese religion and politics, which is to say, ultimately Confucian in origin. That which is important is immediately evident; the viewer's focus is clearly directed. A sense of order is built in, the image is uncluttered by competing interests. In conjunction with this, photographs are strongly symbolic, and this dovetails with a definite romantic temperament which tends to infuse universal meaning with specific fact. Whereas a Western photographer might make a highly personal picture of his mother loaded with autobiographical content and through the specific imply the general, his Vietnamese counterpart would work contrarily. Rather than photograph his own mother, Vietnamese photographers would search until they have found an emblematic example of motherhood, and, conceivably, title it My Mother. This image would begin an iconographic representation through which the personal is recognized. references: "Vietnamese Photography Comes Into Focus", Abby Robinson, Asian Art News, March/April 1997 |
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Le Vuong (b. 1918): Distinguished documentary photographer and one of the founding members of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ha Noi.
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Nguyen Cao Dam, Tran Cao Linh (1925-1996): Two venerable deans of the photographic movement in South Viet Nam in the50s/60s. Both were members of many honored photographic societies and winners of numerous prestigious prizes. |
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Nguyen Ngoc Hanh: An accomplished photo-journalist of the South Viet Nam Armed Forces during the 60s/70s. |
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Hoang Thinh (b. 1942) |
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Doan Thi Tho (b. 1943) |
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Dong Duc Thanh |