Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679456570 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Haunting and a memorial to anyone killed in Vietnam FotoPat As a photographer, I can't say I own "Requiem" out of sheer joy for the greatness of the photographs within. (No one who owns this book will keep it for that reason.) In fact, this is a book that can be at times painful to open up and look at.Perhaps this reaction is the result of the dual reality one is presented with - not only are the photos depicting (at times) someone being killed, but you also know th. J. E. Nelson said Gives faces to the fallen soldiers and journalists.. Normally I am able to tell a person why I like a book or why I like a movie. However, in this case, I am really not able to say why I thought this book was excellent.Requiem is a series of photos and stories from various wars in the Indochina region (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia mainly) from the 1950's to the 1970's. Most of the photos were taken by photographers that lost their lives during the various conf. "Amazing" according to G. YEO. Most people would never think of the Vietnam War as being artistic or the subject of art. Yet somehow in this gripping picture book - the pictures of these photographers transcend the war, and affirm the power and fragility of life. How strange and ironic, but true. Somehow in snapping the moments, something vital has been preserved.The Vietnam war as Tim Page recalls, was the last war where journalists wer
Horst Faas and Tim Page's Requiem is a portfolio of work by combat photographers who died in Vietnam and Indochina. Some were famous, such Robert Capa and Sean Flynn; others will be remembered only thanks to this stunning book. . The photographers came from many countries. Among the photographs presented here are some that everybody old enough to remember the war has seared into their memory: Larry Burrows's famous image of a first-aid station south of the DMZ, where a wounded black marine reaches out to his white brother; Huynh Thanh My's wrenching photographs of suspected Vietcongs' being tortured by government troops; Dana Stone's elegiac portraits of American soldiers marching to their deaths in the A Shau Valley. Requiem is a masterwork, a grim testimonial to a war that seemed as if it would never end--but that
This book is a memorial to those men and women, and in many cases it includes the last photographs they took. Horst Faas and Tim Page, two photographers who worked and were wounded in Vietnam, have gathered many thousands of pictures by those who were killed. These photographers were intimate with war to a degree that may well be denied future generations. Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict are recorded as missing or having been killed. Their loss inspired Tim Page to begin this memorial. The resulting sequence of photographs follows the course of the war and th