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not sure if this is in the right place?, do any of you good people know of any photographers that covered the vietnam war?, i dont mean personally, but toggers in the public eye?.
 
fabs said:
Robert Capa is one. Unfortunately it's where he met his demise, landmine! :(
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Capa died in 1954 photographing the Indochina war.
There were hundreds of snappers covering the war, just do a Google image search and start there.
 
Larry Burrows and Sean Flynn (Son of Errol) who went missing on his way to Cambodia with Dana Stone, Page spent a lot of years trying to find out what happened to them.

Watch the series Frankie's house, it's a good DVD on the photo-journalists in Vietnam
 
Don McCullin and if you fancy a good read as well as seeing some of his photos of all the conflicts he has covered then get Unreasonable Behaviour which is his autobiography. :thumbs:
 
McCullin is right now compiling images for his exhibition at the IWM according to the curator... should be good - and according to Hilary, he's cheered up a bit...

I once spent a happy afternoon chatting to Tim Page while me (then) girlfriend rolled spliffs for him - I was on beer at the time...lol He even signed some older books of his that I'd bought, including a hardback edition of 'Nam - his collected war work originally published ages ago...

PJ Griffiths is another good war 'tog as are Jim Nachtwey and Robert Douglas Duncan...

and then of course...me and the guys I work with.
 
Larry Burrows and Eddie Adams were probably the most famous togs for covering the Vietnam war. Eddie Adams most famous photo was of a guy being executed in the street and he captures the exact moment where the bullet entered his head. Check out the books 'Vietnam' Larry Burrows and 'Vietnam' Eddie Adams. I researched both recently for my college project and bought both books. The pictures are superb in both.
 
Deano said:
Eddie Adams most famous photo was of a guy being executed in the street and he captures the exact moment where the bullet entered his head.
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I was going to suggest the same thing. I have a book titled simply 'WAR Photography', edited by Thomas Barfield, ISBN 1-40547-555-2, that is simply stunning. Bought from Tesco for about 4 quid, it's the best 4 knicker I've ever spent.
 
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