Binh Danh photographs from the Pulau Bidong series, 2003 - 2009.

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Binh Danh photographs from the Pulau Bidong series, 2003 - 2009.

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The collection comprises seventeen 11"x14" black and white photographs taken in 2002 by Binh Danh, a Vietnamese American immigrant, during a visit to Pulau Bidong, an abandoned island off the coast of Malaysia where Danh's family lived as refugees before immigrating to the United States. The Pulau Bidong series includes images from the island that represent physical transformation through decay and environmental exposure in order to convey the metaphor that histories dissolve into their environments. In addition to the photographic prints included in this collection, the series incorporates chlorophyll prints of images from found ephemera on the island. This collection also includes three exhibition catalogs from other projects the artist has completed.

0.8 Linear feet (1 box)

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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Pulua Bidong (Refugee camp : Malaysia).

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Danh, Binh, 1977-

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Binh Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977 and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was two years old. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from San Jose State University in 2002 before becoming one of the youngest artists ever invited to the Stanford University Master of Fine Arts program. Since completing his MFA at Stanford in 2004, Dahn's work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has been added to numerous permanent collections. Dahn pionee...

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