Philip Jones Griffiths, Vietnam War photographer, has passed away ...

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Vietnam war photojournalist dies (BBC)



Photo journalist Philip Jones Griffiths, best known for his his seminal publication, Vietnam Inc. has died aged 72. His work led Noam Chomsky to comment that: "If anybody in Washington had read that book, we wouldn't have had these wars in Iraq or Afghanistan"




Griffiths’ pictures captured American soldiers struggling to survive in often hostile territory. His colleague at Magnum, Henri Cartier-Bresson, said of his work, "not since Goya has anyone portrayed war like Philip Jones Griffiths."




Many of Griffiths’ photographs focus on the effect the war had on the civilian population. Speaking to the BBC in 2005 he said , "I wanted to show that the Vietnamese were people the Americans should be emulating rather than destroying."




"This woman was tagged, probably by a sympathetic corpsman, with the designation Vietnamese civilian. This was unusual. Wounded civilians were normally tagged Vietcong suspect and all dead peasants were posthumously elevated to the rank of Vietcong confirmed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7305468.stm

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1. I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of him until now.

Though I've probably seen his work without knowing it.

Devastating pics, and the doll in the first one gave me chills even more than the graphic ones.

Thank you for this post, very much. I have some homework to do. :(