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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-10037541102X

ISBN-139780375411021

eBay Product ID (ePID)26038300949

Product Key Features

Book TitleLarry Burrows: Vietnam

Number of Pages244 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicIndividual Photographers / General, Military / Vietnam War, Photojournalism

IllustratorYes

GenrePhotography, History

AuthorLarry Burrows

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight64.8 Oz

Item Length12.3 in

Item Width9.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-019100

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal770.9/2

SynopsisIn the heat of battle, in the devastated countryside, among troops and civilians equally hurt by the savagery of war, Larry Burrows photographed the conflict in Vietnam from 1962, the earliest days of American involvement, until 1971, when he died in a helicopter shot down on the VietnamLaos border. His images, published in Life magazine, brought the war home, scorching the consciousness of the public and inspiring much of the anti-war sentiment that convulsed American society in the 1960s. To see these photo essays today, gathered in one volume and augmented by unpublished images from the Burrows archive, is to experience (or to relive), with extraordinary immediacy, both the war itself and the effect and range of Larry Burrows's gifts-his courage: to shoot "The Air War," he strapped himself and his camera to the open doorway of a plane . . . his reporter's instinct: accompanying the mission of the helicopter Yankee Papa 13, he captured the transformation of a young marine crew chief experiencing the death of fellow marines . . . and his compassion: in "Operation Prairie" and "A Degree of Disillusion" he published profoundly affecting images of exhausted, bloodied troops and maimed Vietnamese children, both wounded, physically and psychologically, by the ever-escalating war. The photographs Larry Burrows took in Vietnam, magnificently reproduced in this volume, are brutal, poignant, and utterly truthful, a stunning example of photojournalism that recorded history and achieved the level of great art. Indeed, in retrospect, says David Halberstam in his moving introduction, "Larry Burrows was as much historian as photographer and artist. Because of his work, generations born long after he died will be able to witness and understand and feel the terrible events he recorded. This book is his last testament." With 150 illustrations, 100 in full color

LC Classification NumberDS557.92