Photography & Vietnam: Opinions please

NZDoug wrote in post #4914085
Heres some DDD stuff
http://digitaljournali​st.org/issue0405/burro​ws_ddd.html

That's a good read, thanks. I'm looking forward to receiving 'I Protest!' now. Were there any other major magazines besides Life/(Time?) which were widely read?

Karl C wrote in post #4895047
NSFW - GRAPHIC SUBJECT

Do research on this subject. The photo, taken during the Tet Offensive, had an impact on how Americans viewed the war.

That's the first picture that came to mind when I saw this thread!

Roach711 wrote in post #4918157
That's the first picture that came to mind when I saw this thread!

One of my original ones too. Need some more general ones to analyse set styles.

You might want to go waay back to see when we got involved.

If memory serves me right, Ike sent the first few advisors to Nam at French request, Kennedy more, then Johnson really went whole hog.
The domino theory!

I think for me, the seige of Khe Sanh was the big one for me. I was back about a year, and had a couple friends there, and I watched every minute of it on TV. I use to race home to catch it on the early news every night after work and everyone I knew was talking about it at work, almost everyone knew someone in Nam at the time. We had radios going all day and a lot of work came to a grinding halt in favor of listening to news breaks during the day.

chauncey wrote in post #4926934
You might want to go waay back to see when we got involved.

If memory serves me right, Ike sent the first few advisors to Nam at French request, Kennedy more, then Johnson really went whole hog.
The domino theory!

Don't think i'll go into the background to the war really, probably just add background context to the photo's.

canonloader wrote in post #4927021
I think for me, the seige of Khe Sanh was the big one for me. I was back about a year, and had a couple friends there, and I watched every minute of it on TV. I use to race home to catch it on the early news every night after work and everyone I knew was talking about it at work, almost everyone knew someone in Nam at the time. We had radios going all day and a lot of work came to a grinding halt in favor of listening to news breaks during the day.

Thanks for that, I recently got 'I Protest', by David Douglas Duncan - really is a great book from what i've had chance to look at so far. It's concerned soley with Khe Sanh too. Will be comparing the photo's effects vs TV / written articles as a large part of my work.

Well, if I remember right, Khe Sanh was the first time they really got into listing body counts. Ours, as well as theirs. It was also the first big daily showing of video from the front lines, less than 2 days old. I even remember the anouncers explaining how they had special jets set up to fly the "film" back to the states so it could be shown "fresh" to us in our livingrooms, as there was no digital and satellites shooting data around the world in seconds at that time.

Which in itself might be an interesting side story. I believe that war and the appetite we have for images of others doing the suffering played a huge part in the commercialization of "video from the front lines". [pathetic, aren't we?] But if someone is going to pay for it, let's do it.

canonloader wrote in post #4934128
Well, if I remember right, Khe Sanh was the first time they really got into listing body counts. Ours, as well as theirs. It was also the first big daily showing of video from the front lines, less than 2 days old. I even remember the anouncers explaining how they had special jets set up to fly the "film" back to the states so it could be shown "fresh" to us in our livingrooms, as there was no digital and satellites shooting data around the world in seconds at that time.

Which in itself might be an interesting side story. I believe that war and the appetite we have for images of others doing the suffering played a huge part in the commercialization of "video from the front lines". [pathetic, aren't we?] But if someone is going to pay for it, let's do it.

True, and it still goes on until this day. If people always paid attention to the photographs / TV then then some situations may have been better solved /avoided. Duncan is very critical of the 'body count' mentality which developed during the war, seemingly used to justify victories.

TV had an even bigger impact.

First war on TV.

Your right Sam, video/TV and the "stills" in Life magazine.

hortonsl62 wrote in post #4939969
TV had an even bigger impact.

First war on TV.

I'll definately look into it, finding more out every day!

chauncey wrote in post #4940050
Your right Sam, video/TV and the "stills" in Life magazine.

Were the stills from video, or do you mean photographs?

Jubilee32 wrote in post #4907779
You work on Laos is beautiful and compelling

Thank you Jubilee..Ignoring its problems and tragic history Laos is a beautiful little country..It is deplorable the US military bombed the Bejesus out of Laos, a neutral country during the Second Indo-Chinese War..

But still a wonderful place to live and work..

http://www.pbase.com/j​urgentreue/indochine here are some images.

Jurgen
Laos

yogestee wrote in post #4987009
Thank you Jubilee..Ignoring its problems and tragic history Laos is a beautiful little country..It is deplorable the US military bombed the Bejesus out of Laos, a neutral country during the Second Indo-Chinese War..

But still a wonderful place to live and work..

http://www.pbase.com/j​urgentreue/indochine here are some images.

Jurgen
Laos

I had the pleasure of travelling through Laos in 2005, it truely is an amazing place and it was a shame that I didn't spend that long there. If I ever go back i'd like to visit the Easter (near the Vietnam border), basically the place that got bombed to hell!

adam* wrote in post #4989829
I had the pleasure of travelling through Laos in 2005, it truely is an amazing place and it was a shame that I didn't spend that long there. If I ever go back i'd like to visit the Easter (near the Vietnam border), basically the place that got bombed to hell!

Xieng Khuang and Savannakhet..

yogestee wrote in post #4990929
Xieng Khuang and Savannakhet..

Are those places to visit?