In 2005, Harrell Fletcher visited the War Remnants Museum—formerly called the Museum of Chinese and American War Crimes—in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and used a point-and-shoot camera with flash to photograph more than two hundred photographs and wall labels on display. In re-presenting the display about the conflict in Vietnam and its aftermath, Fletcher examines the ways in which history is presented through a specific cultural lens, the use of photography to illustrate the story of war, and the museum’s role in constructing and presenting those narratives.

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Seeing Through Photographs online course, Coursera, 2016

Medium Inkjet print
Dimensions 15 × 19 15/16" (38.1 × 50.6 cm)
Credit Gift of Christine Burgin and William Wegman
Object number 372.2008.1
Associated work The American War
Department Photography

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