Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42094 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 244 pages

Customer Reviews

Harrowing Images from a Tragic War
Firstly, I'd like to make it clear that I do not own this book; I chose to rate it a 5 only under duress from Amazon. Rather, I have seen many of the stark and harrowing images that feature in this publication at the War Remnants exhibit in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. In many ways the first technicolour war, the US-Vietnam conflict was reported by a free western press as no other before it (and given the freedom-curbing measures of the US military and US media's compliance during the Iraq invasion, perhaps since too). However, it was not the pen that proved to be mightier than the sword (or the machine gun), but rather the still image. Larry Burrows did not live to see the end of the Vietnam war his lenses almost came to define; he was killed in a helicopter crash in 1971 while on assignment for LIFE magazine along with another photographer whose work is of comparable quality, Henri Huet. Burrows' technically-brilliant images of the conflict are arguably definitive - and are certainly among the most memorable of this tragic chapter of 20th century history. For saddening, unforgettable glimpses of what was life - and death - for the poor individuals caught up in it, look no further.