Ut says as a photojournalist, the Vietnam War gave him and his fellow professionals opportunities to tell stories that are simply impossible today. Much of that has to do with military censorship, which, according to Ut, is a direct result of the candid images that emerged from Vietnam.
Nobody stopped me. The American soldiers in Saigon were so lonely. They wanted me to take their pictures. They wanted their families to see their pictures in the newspapers. If they see you taking a photo, they tell you to delete it.
If you try anything like the candid shots of Vietnam, they would never allow it. He says that once he was asked if his small frame makes it difficult to get certain shots. I told people, if I was just a little taller, my head would be gone! Ut helped save the life of Kim Phuc, the girl in his famous picture, setting aside his cameras and taking her to a hospital in Saigon.
He thought her burns were from cooking oil. Never miss a story! The article was well written. Those are two of the three most famous photographs of the Vietnam Conflict I imagine the third one won a Pulitzer Prize.
A Buddhist monk self immolating himself to protest the war. Their effect upon the American people was greater than any broadcast journalist could make, save Walter Cronkite. This article was such a great read. The pictures that were used in this article really expressed how hard times were back in It really makes you feel the things that they had gone through.
I could just imagine what Adams was feeling when taking those pictures. I wonder if he knew at that time that his photographs would make history. The article spoke greatly about the trying times in Vietnam. Nice article! What made your article so captivating was your use of images. Photography is truly powerful, and so is the use of media. It was hard to read that people had to go through these horrible events and so many lives were lost, but because of this picture, no more lives were taken.
Overall, this was an excellent article. Such a great article with even better pictures. The article itself was saddening and made me feel all sorts of emotions.
However, what made this article great- are the pictures. I had seen these pictures before and knew a little bit about the history that came with them but still, every time I see these pictures, I always feel sadness. I thought the article made great points and did a great job of explaining what actions led to the capture of these photos- usually we only get the aftermath. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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Vietnam War , Visual Impact. The fraction of a second captured in most photographs is just that: a snapshot of a moment in time. Sometimes, even in war, that moment can tell a whole story with clarity, but it can be ambiguous too. Purdie was being restrained from turning back to aid his CO. The scene is as wretched as the other. Purdie, wounded for the third time in the war, was about to be flown to a hospital ship off the Vietnamese coast and leave that country for his last time.
The composition of the photograph has been compared to the work of the old masters, but some see it more cinematically: as if you could run a film backwards and forwards to view more of the story. Exhibiting museums have found in it Christian iconography.
And at least one psychiatrist treating war veterans has used it in his practice. Unknowable then was also the life Purdie would live after his 20 years in the Marine Corps, or how important to him faith would become. David Hume Kennerly. Long-forgotten photographs sometimes leap out at me and I am stunned by certain moments that I documented that were so routine when I made them, but are now infused with new emotion and meaning. This picture of a haunted-looking young American GI taking refuge under a poncho from monsoon rains in the jungles outside of Da Nang while on patrol in is one of them.
Many had that intense blaze of realization when a comrade was suddenly, violently, unexpectedly gone, and marveled at still being left intact.
What was his next act, and what happened after he returned from Vietnam? Paul Schutzer. Paul got carried away with all the emotions that happen in war, and he was right in there with the soldiers in battles.
There was one photo of prisoners being guarded by an American soldier about 18 years old. The captives were young children and old women and one woman is nursing her baby. Unfortunately the young soldier was later killed but this image conveyed the senselessness and horror of how the human condition was playing out. The soldiers were very sympathetic to the civilians and one medic befriended them.
It was the first time that Americans saw and learned that we were using napalm. David Burnett. David Burnett—Contact Press Images.
In Vietnam in the early s, the only real limitation was finding a ride. But nearly until the end of the U. It was by choice. That said, it was often a world of anonymous photographers spending time with anonymous soldiers. So while we would talk with the troops about what was happening that day, there were many moments where in the course of making photographs, I would just keep moving along.
I usually knew the unit but looking back now, so much I wish I had noted was simply never written down. It was forever a search for a picture, and you never knew, sometimes for weeks, whether you had that picture or not. My film had to make it all the way to New York before it could be processed and edited. One morning near the end of the unsuccessful Laos invasion of early an attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail , I wandered into a group of young soldiers who were tasked with fixing tanks and track vehicles which were regularly being rocketed by North Vietnamese troops just down the road.
This soldier and I exchanged pleasantries the way you would in the dusty heat. He went back to work after reading a letter from home, and I moved on to another unit. Catherine Leroy. Catherine Leroy—Dotation Catherine Leroy. There is something both surreal and strikingly sad in this photograph by Catherine Leroy. An empty helmet — is its owner still alive? It is photographed as if forming the center of a broken compass, one without arms, pointing nowhere.
The violent spectacle has temporarily receded, and the reader, in this previously unpublished photograph, is given its remains, both the sacred and the partly absurd. She managed to get accredited by the Associated Press, covered numerous battles, was seriously wounded by shrapnel that would remain in her body, parachuted into combat small and thin, she was weighed down so as not to be blown away , was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese which she used as an opportunity to produce a cover story for LIFE Magazine , and remained obsessed by the war until her death in Consumed by a ferocious anger at the hypocrisies of politics at various levels, in her last years Leroy created a website and then a book, Under Fire: Great Photographers and Writers in Vietnam , paying homage to her colleagues 40 years after the war had ended.
Sal Veder. Released prisoner of war Lt. Robert L. Sal Veder—AP. I had photographed POWs returning home time and again, and been in Vietnam on two tours myself, as a photographer.
On that day, There were 30 or 40 photographers boarded on a flat-bed, including TV. I was photographing a different family and out of the corner of my eye saw the action and turned. I was lucky to get a break. It was a great moment for Americans! The joyousness of the reunion and the coming together of the family as a visual is outstanding because it was the end of the war.
We were glad to get it over with. The picture is there and it comes back up again. There is no way to avoid it. Nick UT. My older brother Huynh Thanh My, who was killed covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press, always told me that an image could stop the war and that was his goal. I was devastated when he died. I was very young. But there and then, I decided to follow in his footsteps and complete his mission.
No one was expecting people to come out of the bombed-out burning buildings, but when they did, I was ready with my Leica camera and I feel my brother guided me to capture that image. The rest is history. Yoichi Okamoto. As tens of thousands of anti-war protestors rioted in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention, President Johnson and his family watched from the bedroom at his ranch in Stonewall, Texas.
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