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Her work reveals a preoccupation with displacement and military conflict, especially the legacies of war on US soil.  Silent General (2015–ongoing), is an ongoing project which takes its title from a prose fragment in Civil War-era poet Walt Whitman’s book Specimen Days and Collect, 1882. Lê refers to the groupings of images within the series as “fragments”, which explore layered constructions of history in everyday landscapes. This photograph is part of one such “fragment” that brings together photographs from Louisiana. Captured in a documentary-reportage style, and with astonishing detail, the image depicts the now-removed monument to General Robert E. Lee in New Orleans, a Confederate general during the Civil War. An-My Lê notes: “I want it to hold your attention in every little corner… Then when you stand back, I want it to transcend to something greater.”","physicalDescription":"Photograph of a street scene. A monument of General Robert E. 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