Photographs by Jeffrey Wolin
Essay by Rod Slemmons, Director Museum of Contemporary Photography, Preface by Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana

In searing and intimate photographs, both historical and contemporary, presented with the voices of pride and honor, grief and pain, dread and anxiety, instability and rage, Wolin remembers a war through the lives of the men and women who lived it. No thinking person during the Vietnam War era survived unscathed. Those memories are now being resurrected or at least revisited as we are embroiled in another war with less than clear goals, mounting casualties, and returning combat veterans.

Inconvenient Stories and the traveling exhibition it accompanies are about those veterans and how their lives today are perpetually informed by their past. These people know of things that those of us who weren’t there have no words to describe. In a fifteen-year odyssey across America. Wolin began interviewing and making portraits of veterans in 1992. Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, spearheading the Veterans History project, partnered with Wolin and videotaped the interviews that included in the exhibition and will be archived in the Library of Congress. The exhibition of the portraits and video by Wolin opened at the museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and is traveling to Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York.

About the Author:

JEFFREY WOLIN is a distinguished photographer who has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships. His works are in the collections of the ArtInstitute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Bibliotheque Nationale, International Center of Photography, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, and more.

Hardcover / $40 USD
11″ x 9″ / 112 pages
February 2007
ISBN: 978-1-8841676-14

Website price: $20

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