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Sunday Salon - Larry Burrows
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Stored in: Sunday Salon
Posted On: October 23 2006
By: Bryan Partington
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Today's Sunday Salon brings us the work of Larry Burrows, and a sophisticated discussion on the dangerous nature of War Photography, past and present.
Larry Burrows arrived in Vietnam in 1962 at the age of thirty-six. He’d been a professional photographer for Life magazeine for almost a decade. He’d covered some violent places at violent times (tribal conflict in the Congo, sporadic hostility in the Middle East) and in 1962 Vietnam looked like just another local, low-intensity conflict. Burrows would spend much of the next nine years photographing the war in Vietnam.
Burrows’ assignment with Life gave him the luxury of time. Other photographers had to get into the field, get the photos, get back to the base, process the film, and get the prints to their bureaus so the images could be in the newspapers the following morning. In contrast, Burrows was not subject to a deadline. His landmark 1963 photo essay took six months to complete. As a consequence, Burrows could spend more time in the field with the troops, getting to know them, living with them. That freedom also allowed him to stay with the troops during longer campaigns, covering the full scope of the fighting
I really liked this surprising non-war photo from Burrows that popped up in the Utata group, and many of the points made regarding the difficulty in covering the war in Iraq are rather insightful.
It is a tough discussion, but a valuable one, and you'd best be joining it.
1 comments on this Ink
On June 05, 2008, Keith Kay said ...
Hello all. I came upon this page as a thread of my research on combat photojournalism for a project at Texas State University. I seem to be denied access to any of the links listed in the left column of this page.
Please tell me how I can view the other links on this subject.
My credentials include the fact that I was waiting on the hill top with Larry to get a chopper ride into Laos. The correspondent I was with insisted on going down to a truck convoy in the valley below the hilltop landing zone to try to enter Laos by truck. The convoy was unable to move from its position and we returned to the hilltop later to find out that Burrows, Potter, Huit, Shimamoto and all finally got a chopper into Laos. The chopper was shot down and they were all killed.
I know that Horst Fass and co. have gathered a lot of information and material that is in the memorial section of the Newseum but as far as I am concerned, there is still a lot to be learned about this wonderful person and great photographer.
Thank you,
Keith Kay
barnwood@verizon.net
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- Previously: Sunday Salon - Eric Fredine
- Next: Sunday Salon - David Levinthal
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