Vietnam Revisited
VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. In one of the back streets busts of the father of the nation, Uncle Ho, stand discarded. A local magazine polled young people to discover that they identified Bill Gates as their personal hero rather than the long-dead leader Ho Chi Minh. Police quickly confiscated copies of the paper and burned them after firing the paper's chief editor.
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VIET NAM. Viet nam's first jacuzzi, imported from America before the trade embargo was lifted.
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. The sons and daughters of those who fought in the longest war of the 20th century nowadays find themselves modelling swimsuits at a fashion show.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. June 1993. Discarded statues of Ho Chi Minh.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. A young woman who moved to Ho Chi Minh City from Hanoi.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. Early morning traffic.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. Homeless sleep during siesta time.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. A young girl dressed in her "Sunday best."
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. A video showroom.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. The tank that drove through the gates of the Presidential Palace in 1975 - the act that symbolized victory - sits outside a museum flanked by a new Toyota dealership.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. At a wedding party, only the bride and groom can afford to have the correct attire.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. Erecting a new advertisement.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. A painter puts the final touches on an advertisement for brassieres. It is one of the signs that painters have made a rapid switch from social-realist political painting.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. A bust of Ho Chi Minh is delivered to a downtown business.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. The Apocalypse Now Bar.
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VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh City. 1993. An aerobics class.
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. In the early days after Doi Moi advertising hoarding covered every available space, such as this busy corner. Later the local government passed laws to curtail the defacement of the city.
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VIET NAM. Western influences, which were so popular during the war years, made sporadic reappearances during the 1980's.
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VIET NAM. TV shop.
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VIET NAM. With typical impudence a bar owner responds to a decree that only Vietnamese names are allowed, resorted to renaming his establishment with a non-Vietnamese version. Ever vigilant advertisers believe that every space exists to carry a message.
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VIET NAM. ID tags known as "dog tags" worn by US soldiers are now sold as souveniers. Most are copies of the originals worn by every servicemen. These could be genuine (I found no duplicates and one was for a dog - an unlikely item for a faker.)
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. New buildings of questionable taste hurriedly built for the new monied class.
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. By the late nineteen eighties, Ho Chi Minh City was awash with visiting businessmen, all eager to meet Vietnamese counterparts. Many were to leave empty handed as the Vietnamese turned out to be resiliant to their advances.
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. By the late nineteen eighties, Ho Chi Minh City was awash with visiting businessmen, all eager to meet Vietnamese counterparts. Many were to leave empty handed as the Vietnamese turned out to be resiliant to their advances.
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City's first health club. Obesity is a new phenomenon in Vietnam.
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. With an influx of foreign businessmen night clubs quickly appeared in Ho Chi Minh City. With Vietnamese women not considered suffiently lascivious, foreign singers such as these from Australia were imported.
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VIET NAM. Fashion shows have become standard fare in the towns and cities of Viet Nam. Extroardinary beauty is being revealed for all to see in a way that was unthinkable a few years earlier when sensuality was more subtle.
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VIET NAM. Fashion shows have become standard fare in the towns and cities of Viet Nam. Extroardinary beauty is being revealed for all to see in a way that was unthinkable a few years earlier when sensuality was more subtle.
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VIET NAM. Fashion shows have become standard fare in the towns and cities of Viet Nam. Extroardinary beauty is being revealed for all to see in a way that was unthinkable a few years earlier when sensuality was more subtle.
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. The sons and daughters of those who fought in the longest war of the 20th century nowadays find themselves modelling swimsuits at a fashion show.
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VIET NAM. Garden decorations fabricated for the newly-emerging middle class.
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. By the late nineteen eighties, Ho Chi Minh City was awash with visiting businessmen, all eager to meet Vietnamese counterparts. Many were to leave empty handed as the Vietnamese turned out to be resiliant to their advances.
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. With an influx of foreign businessmen night clubs quickly appeared in Ho Chi Minh City. With Vietnamese women not considered suffiently lascivious, foreign singers such as these from Australia were imported.
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City. A customer at a nightclub gets into the swing of things.
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VIET NAM. Ho Chi Minh City's first health club. Obesity is a new phenomenon in Vietnam.
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VIET NAM. Business cards on the wall of a restaurant.
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VIET NAM. A bust of Ho Chi Minh crated for delivery to a downtown business.
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VIET NAM. Youths on their way to a pop concert.
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VIET NAM. Putting the final touches on an advertising billboard for brasseries. The ever versatile sign painters have made such a rapid switch from social-realist political painting to the demands of consumerism.