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Work ⟩1990s ⟩Wreck of A B52 with Captured Armoured Car, Hanoi 1994

About the Work

In the secluded grounds of a former French colonial villa, now the National Army Museum, in downtown Hanoi, stands a memorial to the Vietnam War. It is the remains of a bomber, shot down over Hanoi, now exhibited with an armoured car in a sort of 3d collage. I photographed this very quickly, as the museum was about to close. The American painter, Thomas Hart Benton, had enjoyed celebrating machinery in his work. To me the evening light seemed to give this heap of crashed and captured US technology an odd reference to his style of painting.