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Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape - by Lauren Dickens & Jodi Throckmorton (Paperback)

Name: Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape - by Lauren Dickens & Jodi Throckmorton (Paperback)
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SKU: 1003233480
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Combining photomontage with portraiture and scenes of Hmong American communities, Her mixes the real with the artificial in search of a diasporic identityPublished with San José Museum of Art and John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
Author(s): Lauren Dickens & Jodi Throckmorton
124 Pages
Photography, Individual Photographers

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Combining photomontage with portraiture and scenes of Hmong American communities, Her mixes the real with the artificial in search of a diasporic identity

Published with San José Museum of Art and John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

Rooted in the experience of her Hmong community and shaped by family lore passed down by her elders, Pao Houa Her (born 1982) investigates the potential of photography to create nonlinear narratives exploring construction. She brings together formal and vernacular photographic languages manipulated into light boxes, wheat-pasted images and videos. Her's adoptive homes of Minnesota and California become stand-ins for Laos; plastic florals replace living tropics; ersatz and real meld together. The Imaginative Landscape traces Her's ever-deepening exploration into concepts of home and belonging. With essays and an artist interview, this catalog explores Her's work in genres of portraiture, landscape, still life and the vernacular, as she photographs herself and the people and places around her through the tinted lens of diasporic longing.

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The worlds [Pao Houa Her] creates suggest a contagious newness.--Hrag Vartanian "Hyperallergic"

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.8 Inches (H) x 8.0 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.75 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 124

Genre: Photography

Sub-Genre: Individual Photographers

Publisher: Inventory Press

Theme: Monographs

Format: Paperback

Author: Lauren Dickens & Jodi Throckmorton

Language: English

Street Date: April 28, 2026

TCIN: 1003233480

UPC: 9781941753835

Item Number (DPCI): 247-41-4312

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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