These photos offer a look back at the Vietnam War from the escalation of U.S. involvement in the early 1960′s to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
Category: War
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War Photographers Change Focus
I have talked a lot over the years to war photographers about their work. But I had to wonder this week when it becomes too much. In several interviews, some of the best visual artists of this generation talked about how they realized it was time to step away. They’re still focused on conflict but in different ways.
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The Most Beautiful Girl They’ve Seen Or The Embedded Photojournalist Gets Picked Up!
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html
I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many people don’t read TOS agreements and twitpic doesn’t really advertise or clearly disclose that they can screw you over and steal your rights.
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‘Conflict Zone’ Showcases Photography From Iraq and Afghanistan
Two Wars, Seen Many Ways
Originally conceived as a fund-raiser for Joao Silva, “Conflict Zone” — which opens in New York on Friday — has become a collaborative effort to show the humanity in war. The New York show is dedicated to Chris Hondros, who believed in photographing shared human experiences.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/two-wars-seen-many-ways/
“Conflict Zone,” an exhibition of conflict photography opening Friday at the New York City Fire Museum, has gone through several versions. The project was originally conceived in fall 2010 as a fundraiser for Joao Silva, who had just been injured in Afghanistan while on assignment for The New York Times.
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The New York Times’s War Photojournalists Showcased at Photoville
Bringing Photographs of War to the Brooklyn Waterfront
The New York Times spotlights a decade of war photojournalism at Photoville, an immersive photo exhibition opening today in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/exhibiting-a-decade-of-war/
Photographers for The New York Times have covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning and continue to do so, long after most news organizations have withdrawn. They have brought the crux of the wars to the doorsteps of the American public — often at great personal risk.
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For soldier’s family, heartache without end
In one of the most iconic battlefield images ever captured on film, two wounded Operation Desert Storm soldiers in an evacuation helicopter have just learned who’s in the bloody body bag at their feet. It’s their friend and Catherine’s high school sweetheart, Andy Alaniz.
The photo eventually helped Catherine learn the truth about how her husband died and that the government had lied to her about it.
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Erin Trieb’s Homecoming Project: Capturing War Through Veteran Tales
The Homecoming Project, which began when Trieb spent months with soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division after their return from Afghanistan, documents the struggles many troops face when they return home from combat. “Somehow, we’ve got to have a conversation about these two wars in a way that’s palpable for the public and in a way that they’re not burned out seeing or hearing it,” Trieb says. “It’s been too long and I feel like it doesn’t even faze them. It’s my job to be a journalist and report, but ultimately it’s my passion to reach the public in a really meaningful way.”
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Moises Saman Photographs Syria’s Descent Into Civil War
The bombing in Damascus “emboldened the rebels to go on the offensive, for a moment suggesting that a perfect storm would lead to the imminent fall of the regime,” Saman wrote to me from his home base in Cairo. “Here we are a month later, with people dying at a rate of about sixty per day, as both sides hunker down and prepare for a long and vicious civil war that will inevitably affect any chance at further reconciliation.”
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Jerome Delay: Photographing Mali’s Invisible War
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via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/
everything was designed from the start to make access virtually impossible. To get to Sevare, I had to bypass five Malian checkpoints, whose instructions were to turn back any and every journalist on the road. Thanks to Land Cruisers and GPS, we managed bypass them each time
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Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: Occupation and Insurgency
Iraq War’s 10th Anniversary: Occupation and Insurgency
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/iraq-wars-10th-anniversary-occupation-and-insurgency/100476/
‘s entry focuses on the period during which the majority of the war took place, after the 2003 invasion and just prior to the 2011 withdrawal
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In Memory – The War in Iraq, Ten Years On
Peter Turnley covered the first Gulf War in 1991, and was present from the first day of this latest war in Iraq which started yesterday March 19, 2003. I worked as an unembedded photojournalist in Iraq for the first five weeks of the war and spent much time in southern Iraq, near Basra, arriving in Baghdad, the same day US forces entered the City in April of 2003. It is important that a photographic record serve as a constant opportunity to assess the past, and think about the future. Somethings should never be forgotten. In this spirit, here a portfolio of 20 photographs