Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Snip Marc James Small wrote: > > Well, I for one, feel a bit aggrieved at the job done by Western > photo-journalists in Viet-Nam. The US, for God's sake, was putting >men IN HARM'S WAY and the photo-journalists, by undermining their >efforts, stabbed them rather dramatically in the back. It wasn't >journalism: it was trash. Marc <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> FAX: >+540/343-7315 Snip Marc, with due respect, I believe you are mixing up photographers, who were frontline and in combat, with TV flacks (aka news commentators) who used the video footage (taken by others) to put their spin on events. Take the book "Requiem" for what it is, a tribute to 135 photographers who died or disappeared while covering the Indochina wars. Many of the photographers who died were South Vietnamese. The first American was Robert Capa (WW II photographer and a veteran of D-day) who was lost his life while with the French, in May of 1954. The book contains many, many outstanding photographs of the time period. I would encourage you to see the exhibit! Your e-mail address appears to be out of Roanoke, Virginia. You really should trek up to Arlington where it is presently showing. My best -- & Happy Holidays. Bill Caldwell