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Vietnam war    1960s-1975

 

Photographs > Online ressources

 

 

 

 

Photographer Huynh Thanh My,

pinned down with a Vietnamese battalion

in a Mekong Delta rice paddy on 13 October 1965 [ ? ],

about a month before he was killed while covering combat.

 

Anglonautes' note :

according to Wikipedia and the BBC,

Huỳnh Thanh Mỹ died on October 10, 1965.

Check photo caption accuracy.

 

His younger brother, Nick Ut,

later came to work for the AP as a photographer

 

Photograph: AP

 

Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures

G

Wednesday 22 April 2015    11.13 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/22/vietnam-
the-real-war-a-photographic-history-by-the-associated-press-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A soldier's eye:

rediscovered pictures from Vietnam

Boston Globe    2013

 

 

 

 

An unidentified soldier pauses for a cigarette.

 

Name, date, and location unknown.

 

Boston Globe > Big Picture

A soldier's eye: rediscovered pictures from Vietnam

March 25, 2013

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/03/a_soldiers_eye_rediscovered_pi.html - bronen link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charlie Haughey was drafted

into the US Army in October of 1967.

 

He was 24,

and had been in college in Michigan

before running out of money

and quitting school to work

in a sheet metal factory.

 

The draft notice meant

that he was to serve a tour of duty in Vietnam,

designated a rifleman,

the basic field position in the Army.

 

After 63 days in Vietnam,

he was made a photographer,

shooting photographs

for the Army and US newspapers,

with these instructions from the Colonel:

 

“You are not a combat photographer.

This is a morale operation.

If I see pictures of my guys in papers,

doing their jobs with honor,

then you can do what you like in Vietnam.”

 

He shot nearly 2,000 images

between March 1968 and May 1969

before taking the negatives home.

 

And there they sat, out of sight,

but not out of mind, for 45 years,

until a chance meeting

brought them out of dormancy

and into a digital scanner.

 

At first,

it was very difficult

for Haughey to view the images

and talk about them,

especially not knowing the fates

of many of the subjects of his photos.

 

When the digitization

hit 1,700 negative scans,

Haughey put them on a slideshow

and viewed them all at once,

and didn’t sleep for three days after.

 

He’s slowly getting better at dealing

with the emotional impact of seeing the images

for the first time in decades.

 

A team of volunteers has worked

with Haughey to plan a 28-image show

titled A Weather Walked In,

which opens April 5th

in the ADX art gallery in Portland, Oregon.

 

The difficulty of keeping notes in a war zone

along with the passage of decades

has faded the details behind many of the images,

and the captions reflect this fact,

with many shots of unknown people

in forgotten locations at unspecified times.

 

It is hoped that publication

of the pictures can yield more information.

 

More images from the collection will be released

as the project progresses.

 

You can follow the progress

on

https://www.facebook.com/chieuhoiphoto

and

https://chieu-hoi.tumblr.com/about

 

Thanks to Chieu Hoi project volunteer Kris Regentin

for preparing much of this introduction

and the accompanying captions.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/03/a_soldiers_eye_rediscovered_pi.html

 

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/chieuhoi/albums/
72157632817930862/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francois Sully    1927-1971

 

Newsweek’s

legendary Saigon bureau chief

 

The United States began its involvement

in Vietnam in the mid-1950s,

and almost immediately

the government’s sketchy nomenclature

underscored the ill-defined nature of the war

that was never officially a war.

 

U.S. personnel were “advisers”

to the South Vietnamese.

 

This fiction was maintained

throughout the early ’60s,

even as the number of U.S. troops

escalated every year —11,300 in 1962,

16,300 in 1963,

23,300 in 1964.

 

U.S. combat units,

composed entirely of American troops,

did not officially appear until 1965,

the year these photographs were shot

—most of them by Newsweek’s legendary

Saigon bureau chief Francois Sully

and never seen until now.

 

By this time,

there were 184,300 American troops

stationed in Vietnam,

and the U.S. government’s motives and policies

were being increasingly criticized at home

and abroad.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2012/03/18/
the-vietnam-war-captured-in-vintage-newsweek-photos-from-1965.html

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
François_Sully

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My War:

wartime photographs

by US soldiers in Vietnam

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/sep/20/
my-war-photographs-us-soldiers-vietnam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/22/
vietnam-the-real-war-a-photographic-history-by-the-associated-press-
in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Vietnam war remembered in pictures

– review    15 March 2011

 

Tribute to Henri Huet and the photographers

who risked all to capture images of Vietnam conflict

opens at Maison Européenne de la Photographie,

Paris

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/15/
vietnam-photography-huet-guillot-review
 

 

 

 

 

Even during a war

that produced some of the most

iconic moments in photojournalism,

Henri Huet’s images of Vietnam

distinguish themselves

as particularly artistic and moving.

 

Unlike most war photographers,

Huet was a native of the land

he was photographing,

the son of a French engineer

and Vietnamese mother.

 

Shooting for the Associated Press,

he captured an image

of a badly wounded American medic

continuing to tend to other injured soldiers

that landed on the cover

of Life magazine and won him

the Robert Capa Gold Medal.

 

Like Capa,

the famed chronicler of battle,

Huet died in the line of duty:

he was shot down over Laos in 1971,

at the age of 43.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2011/03/13/vietnam-
war-henri-huet.html

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/mar/15/
vietnam-photography-huet-guillot-review

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/mar/15/
photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vietnam: The Real War

 

A Photographic History

by the Associated Press

 

Authors:

By the Associated Press,

introduction by Pete Hamill

Imprint: Abrams Books

ISBN: 1-4197-0864-3

EAN: 9781419708640

http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/Vietnam__The_Real_War-9781419708640.html

 

 

 

 

Vietnam war:

classic AP photographs - in pictures

 

See powerful images of the conflict

from the archives of the news agency.

 

They are featured in a new book,

Vietnam: The Real War,

published on 2 October,

that marks the 50th anniversary

of the start of hostilities.

 

It includes AP journalist

Malcolm Browne's shocking photo

of a Buddhist monk taking his own life

in petrol-fuelled flames on a Saigon street in 1963,

and Nick Ut's famous shot of a Vietnamese girl

in the aftermath of a napalm attack.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2013/oct/02/vietnam-war-ap-photographs

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2013/oct/02/
vietnam-war-ap-photographs 

 

 

 

 

Vietnam War Photos That Made a Difference

 

For the first time

since the early days of the Republic,

Americans were in a war without censorship.

 

Correspondents were subject to “ground rules”

that protected military security,

but, unlike in World War II and Korea,

officials did not screen news copy

or vet photographs.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/vietnam-war-photos-that-made-a-difference/

 

 

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/
vietnam-war-photos-that-made-a-difference/

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/
arts/design/images-of-the-vietnam-war-that-defined-an-era.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images of the Vietnam War

That Defined an Era

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/
arts/design/images-of-the-vietnam-war-that-defined-an-era.html

 

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/
a-veteran-reporter-reflects-on-a-distant-war/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

War in Vietnam    NARA Documents    Photographs

 

 

 

 

"Da Nang, Vietnam...

A young Marine private waits on the beach

during the Marine landing"

 

By an unknown photographer,

August 3, 1965

 

1998 print.

 

Records of the U. S. Marine Corps.

(127-W-A-185146)

https://www.archives.gov/files/press/press-kits/
picturing-the-century-photos/marine-in-da-nang-vietnam.jpg 

Picturing the Century:

One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives

Eight Portfolios from Part I

https://www.archives.gov/files/press/press-kits/
picturing-the-century-photos/marine-in-da-nang-vietnam.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/
vietnam-photos 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North Vietnamese photographers

 

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/
vietnams-photographic-history-told-by-the-winners/ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching With Documents

 

The War in Vietnam - A Story in Photographs

 

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/
vietnam-photos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anglonautes > Arts > Photography

 

war photography

 

 

20th, 21st century > Horst Faas (GER, 1933-2012)

 

 

20th century > Henri Huet (FR, 1927-1971)

 

 

 

 

 

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Related

 

New York Times > General Vang Pao    1929-2011

 

a charismatic Laotian general

who commanded a secret army of his mountain people

in a long, losing campaign against Communist insurgents,

then achieved almost kinglike status as their leader-in-exile

in the United States

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/
world/asia/08vangpao.html 

 

 

 

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