binhdanh

Binh Danh, who is famous for his artwork as using the power of the sun to print the pictures on the leaves, is a historical photographer and artist of specializing for Vietnam war. Binh Danh who was educated in San Jose State University, and became a youngest photographers invited into Stanford University's Master of Fine Art Program at the age of 25. He took experiences from his dad when he was a child as well as a long-life interested in science when he was a child, both helped him invented a new innovative technique referred as "Chlorophyll print", which in the procedure from start to finish is briefly that he took the leaves from his mother garden or even a knotgrass in a lawn arranged in even distance vertically, and growing images into them by choosing a suitable size leaf to contains pertinently the images from the negative "black and white" photographs. Next, placing the photographs on the leaf, sandwiching the two items between the two sheets of glasses, and then expose the item under sunlight and drying the whole set on the proof in the sunny day for a certain period of time until the blur images appear pictorially. By that, the images from the photograph would be conveyed into the leaf. As a result of using this technique, Bind Danh was able to invent many notable artworks such as one of his well-known exhibitions was "One week's dead in 2007, or "Life: Dead" 2008, which highlighted for Vietnam War as a portrait album collections of soldiers who were died in Vietnam war. It's not only the technique catch attention from people, but also the content of the images inside the leaves bright out the full sight about Vietnam War. Leaf prints show extensively about his desire to explore more about what happened in his native country as Vietnam war brought out the result of his family emigrating to the United States in 1979 when he was two; it was too young for him to remember the event in detail. Furthermore, his parents rarely told him about Vietnam War as the parents didn't want to burden their children with hardship and predicament they used to encounter. As a result, Binh Danh had to encourage himself to discover the past at the time the only thing he learned at The United States about Vietnam is that it was a country of war. He Said "For me it becomes almost a religion, it's almost my own religious practice when I make my own artwork, because I am coming up with my own concept of what is life, what is death, what is consciousness and what is history." By that, he set up his artwork focused on the Vietnam war era throughout photographs which Danh recognize that "photographs bring up memories and for me they start to fabricate these memories of my life in Vietnam" and " A lot of my work has to do with deaths itself", he said so even though he never experienced the death of the war, or he never asked his dad if he had killed anyone because it was too painful to ask them about that. One of the way he depicted the objects of Vietnam war era is to shows the portrait of passed-way soldiers. His portrait photographs brings up the memories of Vietnam war.