Dickey Chapelle’s coverage on ‘Water War in Vietnam’, on the South Vietnamese Army gunboats being often shot from the Mekong river banks by Vietcong machine guns and snipers, appeared in the National Geographic after her death.
Tag: Vietnam War
Helicopters over South Viet Nam by Dickey Chapelle, 1962
Dickey Chapelle arrived in Vietnam in the early ’60s, and described her early experiences in “What’s a Woman Doing Here?” On an assignment for National Geographic, she embedded with the helicopter units waging an aerial battle over Vietnam.
Shell-shocked soldier by Don McCullin, 1968
The photo above of a dazed American soldier, entitled Shellshocked US Marine would become the most well-known of McCullin’s photos from Hue.
1963 | Ca Mau, Vietnam
The war in Vietnam as seen through the lens of Viet Cong guerrilla fighters who documented the front line of the resistence.
Diên Biên Phu | Daniel Camus
Vietnam’s rebellion against French rule reached a pivotal turning point at Diên Biên Phu in 1954. Paris Match parachuted a photographer in.
Dickey Chapelle, the Lotus Eater
Why photojournalists play only marginal roles in fiction is a question that throughly troubles me. […]
Crime and Punishment
For more than 10 years, Horst Faas covered the Vietnam war for the AP. Travelling […]
The Blunt Reality of War in Vietnam
Paul Schutzers and Mike Mok were embedded with Marines to produce a photo-essay depicting the grim reality of the guerrilla war in Vietnam.
The Immolation of Quang Duc, 1963
In 1963, a 73-year old monk lit himself on fire to protest the policies of President Ngo Dinh Diem in a pivotal moment for South Vietnam.
Execution of A Vietcong Guerilla, 1968
An officer of the Viet Cong was summarily executed in Saigon by General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan during the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War. A photo won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and helped galvanize the anti-war movement in the United States