Huet's photographs of the war were influential in moulding American public opinion. A series of twelve photographs was published in the 11 February 1966 edition of LIFE magazine, with one of the haunting images featuring on the cover.
By
Helen Pow
The Vietnam War left a deep and lasting impression on not just the soldiers who fought but the whole of America.
And
the superb photojournalism by the Associated Press' Saigon bureau was
largely responsible for sharing the bravery and drama of the conflict
with those at home.
A spectacular new book entitled 'Vietnam: The Real War'
has collected some 300 of the most historic AP images - from Malcolm
Browne's image of the burning monk to Nick Ut's photograph of a
9-year-old running from a napalm attack to Eddie Adams' picture of the
execution of a Viet Cong prisoner - that serve as a photographic record
of the Vietnam War.
Writer
Pete Hamill gives a moving tribute to the unbelievably brave AP
photojournalists who reported from the frontline half a century ago to
share the harrowing truths of war, some paying the ultimate price. The AP earned six Pulitzer Prizes, including four for photography, for its Vietnam War coverage.
'Across
the years of the war in Vietnam, the AP photographers saw more combat
than any general, Hamill explains in his introduction. 'This book shows how good they were... From Vietnam, photographers taught the world how to see the war.'
'Vietnam:
The Real War' is being published on October 1 by Abrams Books in the
U.S. and Canada, and by Abrams & Chronicle Books in the UK. The
book's publication will coincide with an exhibition at the Steven Kasher
Gallery in Manhattan, which opens October 24 and will run through
November 26.
Vietnam: The Real War is being published on Oct.
1 by Abrams Books in the U.S. and Canada, and by Abrams & Chronicle
Books in the UK
Horst Faas was a German photo-journalist and
two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who later was editor of The Associated
Press staff in Saigon
Henri Huet, a French war photographer for The
Associated Press, died in 1971 when the helicopter he and three other
photojournalists were in was shot down over the most heavily defended
area of the Ho Chi Minh trail
John T. Wheeler's photograph of an injured soldier on the operating table is featured in the nook
New Zealand journalist Peter Gregg Arnett worked
for National Geographic magazine, and later for various television
networks, most notably CNN as well as AP. He won a Pulitzer Prize for
International Reporting
Malcolm Wilde Browne was a Pulitzer
Prize-winning American journalist and photographer. His best known work
was the award-winning photograph of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk
ThÃch Qu¿ng ¿¿c in 1963, pictured. He died in 2012
Horst Faas' images of the Vietnam War won him a
Pulitzer Prize in 1965. In 1967 he was severely wounded in the legs by
an rocket-propelled grenade and used a wheelchair for the rest of his
life. He died in 2012
Henri Huet was respected for his dedication,
bravery and skill in the field, and known for his sense of humor and
kindness. He was 43 when he was killed
The AP earned six Pulitzer Prizes, including four for photography, for its Vietnam War coverage
The book 'Vietnam: The Real War' will be published to coincide with an exhibition of images at New York's Steven Kasher Gallery
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I do not know and perhaps do not want to know how a man can look so much at peace with the world while dispensing with his life with a conflagration of gasoline.
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