Photographic Memory

San Francisco Magazine Jeanne Cooper Courtesy of the Artist & P.P.O.W An artist explores perspectives of Vietnam through videos, weavings and prewar snapshots. Artist Dinh Q. Lê shares the dramatic experience of many Vietnamese Americans his age: He fled his homeland with his family in 1978 when he was just 10 years old and spent a year in a refugee camp in Thailand before immigrating to California. That legacy of early exile—and his life in Vietnam for the last two decades—underlies Dinh Q...