An obsessed artist is collecting thousands of Vietnam War photos from eBay
 

An obsessed artist is collecting thousands of Vietnam War photos from eBay
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The Vietnam War is well-k**wn as the televised war, but there's a treasure trove of photographs yet to be discovered.

An Australian artist is looking to exhibit thousands of images of the Vietnam War, the majority of which were purchased on the Internet. It's been titled the Vietnam Archive Project

The project began as "pure coincidence" for Melbourne-based Phuong Ngo, of Vietnamese background, who was looking on eBay for photographs for an art school project relating to his family's history in 2010.*

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Image: phuong ngo


Ngo bought his first set of 400 slides out of curiosity, purchased for around US$400 from a widow who was selling her dead husband's collection on eBay. Read more...


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