Tag: philip jones griffiths
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Philip Jones Griffiths Maelstrom
Link: The exhibition Maelstrom of photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths at Howard Greenberg gallery in New York covers his work on the Vietnam War and the conflict in Northern Ireland during the 1970s.
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The Significance of a Personal Project
The Significance of a Personal Project My daily stroll through the newly-built but already-decaying park near my apartment in Hanoi while listening to Spotify on a brisk (by Southeast Asia via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2017/11/24/significance-personal-project/ When I arrived back in Hanoi I was accompanied by a truck load of credit card debt from gear purchased that I…
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The Magnificent One: Philip Jones Griffiths by Donna Ferrato and Emmanuel Trousse
The Magnificent One: Philip Jones Griffiths by Donna Ferrato and Emmanuel Trousse — duckrabbit I haven’t had a chance to watch this yet because I’m training a group of people in London, but I’m… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2013/03/the-magnificent-one-philip-jones-griffiths-by-donna-ferrato-and-emmanuel-trousse/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29 Legendary anti-war photographer and author of Viet Nam Inc, Philip Jones Griffiths, gives the interview of a lifetime…
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Mythical power: Understanding photojournalism in the Vietnam War
Mythical power: Understanding photojournalism in the Vietnam War – David Campbell Photojournalism in the Vietnam War is often said to have had the power to change the course of the conflict. But this power is mythical. via David Campbell: http://www.david-campbell.org/2013/01/31/mythical-power-understanding-photojournalism-in-vietnam-war/ “This is significant for photojournalism’s understanding of its historical role and potential power. Many of…
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Look 3 Report: Donna Ferrato on Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin, and Complicated Relationships
Look 3 Report: Donna Ferrato on Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin, and Complicated Relationships | PDNPulse Donna Ferrato brought a quick wit and joie de vivre to an onstage interview with NPR personality Alex Chadwick at the LOOK3 photo festival in Charlottesville on Friday afternoon. A unifying theme of their wide-ranging discussion was Ferrato’s belief…
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The Dauntless Spirit – Philip Jones Griffiths: 1936-2008
Peter Howe: f you knew Wales, you knew Philip Jones Griffiths. To the end of his life he remained true to his Welshness, which defined him with a power that few environments exert. Both he and his birthplace are rife with contradictions. It is a breathtakingly beautiful land, and relentlessly bleak, a land of strong…
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Philip Jones Griffiths 1936-2008 – Magnum Photos
It was Philip’s consummate skill as a picture maker, carefully able to draw the viewer closer and closer to his subjects through his emotionally-charged compositions that lent such power to his work. Philip was always concerned with individuals – their personal and intimate suffering more than any particular class or ideological struggle. And the strength…
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War photographer Philip Jones Griffith dies at 72
British photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths, known for his unflinching coverage of the Vietnam war, died on Tuesday aged 72, the Magnum photo agency said. Born in Wales in 1936, Griffith Jones launched his career as a freelancer for Britain’s Observer newspaper in 1961, covering the Algerian war in 1962 before travelling across central Africa. In…