{"product_id":"other-streets-scenes-from-a-life-in-vietnam-not-lived-paperback","title":"Other Streets: Scenes from a Life in Vietnam not Lived - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHung Van Do\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark F. Erickson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1972, I was born Đỗ Văn H ng in Saigon, Vietnam. In the closing days of the war, as part of Operation Babylift, I was evacuated on a Pan American Airways 747, adopted in western New York, and renamed Mark F. Erickson. Growing up, I knew and thought nothing of Vietnam and only passively learned about it from the stories America was telling itself about the war, mainly through the movies of the 1980s. As a student at Harvard College, I made my first Vietnamese-American friends, studied Vietnamese history from a Vietnamese perspective with Hue-Tam Ho Tai, and learned documentary photography with Chris Killip and David Goldblatt. From Killip and Goldblatt, I learned how powerful photo essays challenged the national narratives of the English (In Flagrante), the South Africans (In Boksburg), and the Americans (Robert Frank's The Americans). Thus, in 1993, I returned to Vietnam with my manual 35mm film camera to subvert the version of my birth country that I myself had absorbed as an American. Through these images of ordinary people doing ordinary things in ordinary places, I had a glimpse into a life I never had the opportunity to live. And twenty-five years later, it is also a glimpse into a Vietnam-now transformed by rapid economic growth-that no longer exists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 106\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47413177155762,"sku":"9798636555155","price":33.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1973ad72706ebbdcc4e6b9595850da29.webp?v=1778342561","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/other-streets-scenes-from-a-life-in-vietnam-not-lived-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}