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Shooting Vietnam - The War By Its Military Photographers (Hardcover)
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Shooting Vietnam - The War By Its Military Photographers (Hardcover)
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What was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most
photographed war in history the Vietnam War? Shooting Vietnam takes
you there as you read the firsthand accounts and view the hundreds
of photographs by men who lived the war through the lens of a
camera. They documented everything from the horror of combat to the
people and culture of a land they suddenly found themselves
immersed in. Some even juggled cameras with rifles and grenade
launchers as they fought to survive while carrying out their
assignments to record the war. Shooting Vietnam also finally brings
recognition to these unheralded military combat photographers in
Vietnam that documented the brutal, unpopular, and futile war.
Firsthand accounts and photographs by military photographers in
Vietnam from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, Shooting Vietnam
puts the reader right alongside these men as they struggle to
document the war and stay alive while doing it although some didn't
survive. The cameras around their necks often shared space with a
rifle or grenade launcher that enabled them to stay alive while
performing their assigned military duties, killing, if necessary,
to survive. Often, during a brief respite from trudging through
swamps and rice paddies or jumping from a chopper into a hot
landing zone, they would wander the streets of villages or even
downtown Saigon, curiously photographing a people and a culture so
strange and different to them. It is these photographs, of a
kinder, more personal nature, removed from the horror and death of
war that they also share with the reader. The accounts in this book
come from twelve men, all who had their own unique perspective on
the war. Some were seasoned photographers before the military,
others had only recently held a camera for the first time.
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