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35MM Leica
The developement of 35 MM Leica helped increase graphic imagery of battles and bombing campaigns during the Vietnam War (Cookman 132).
Source: Cookman, Calude Hubert. American Photojournalism: Motivations and Meanings. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2009. Print. -
Covering the War
Access was granted to photographers through the South Vietnamese government, not the United States government or U.S. military. This made it easy for photographers to gain direct access to the war. This was a huge change from previous wars such as WWII because it was less regulated and picturers were not censored by the U.S. military. Because of this photographers were able to walk into battle along side soilders. This gave the public a first hand view of war in their living rooms (Cookman 132). -
Malcolm Browne- Monk on Fire
Malcolm Browne's photo of a monk who lit himself on fire in protest of the South Vietnamese government's treatment of buddhists. This shocking and gruesome photo was one of the first of many in the Vietnam War. It was published in many places, which was new for news outlets to publish something like that for the public to see. It set the bar and allowed many more shocking and sobering photos to come out of Vietnam for the world to see. Photo: Rare Hitorical Photos "The Burning Monk,1963" -
Larry Burrows 1965
A Life Magazine premier photographer during the Vietnam War who captured “Yankee Papa 13”, the Chinook helicopter. Burrows got the permission to ride in the helicopter on a South Vietnamese mission and the story focuses on a crew chief of the marine helicopter Lance Corporal James Farley. He photographed Farley holding a mortally wounded copilot in his arms to penetrate the hearts in the United States.
Cosgrove, Ben. "Sudden Death in Vietnam: ‘One Ride With Yankee Papa 13’." Time Inc. N.p., 12 -
Catherine Leroy 1967
Catherine Leroy was french photoournalist who photographed conflict in Vietnam. In 1967 she this image of a US Navy Corpsman lookign up in anguish after realizing that his comrade had died. After three years in Vietnam, she joined the Black Star Photo Agency. (Cookman, 132) -
Eddie Adams 1968
Adams took a historically remarkable photograph of South Vietnamese general Nguyen Ngo Loan summarily executing a suspected Vietcong captured the brutality of American Allies.
This was news for America because they did not know the severity of what was happening overseas. It shows that we should not support dictatorship.This picture generated response but it DID NOT change public opinion. (Cookman 134).
Cookman, Calude Hubert. American Photojournalism: Motivations and Meanings. Evanston, IL. -
My Lai - 1968
On March, 16, 1968, American soldiers of Charle Company, a unite with the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. These US Army Soidliers massacrured between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians. US Army Photographer Ron Haeberle was present and shot photos of the massacre. Color images that he shot on a personal camera were later sold to the media and prompted public outrage and an ingestigation. Twenty-six soldiers were charged. (Cookman, 133) -
LIFE Magazine- One Week's Dead
With public opinon of the war continually becoming more negative, LIFE Magazine also started to sway towards the side of those agianst the war. They published many pictures that showed the reality of the war that the public often saw as negative. On June 22, 1969, LIFE published a story with a six-page spread of pictures of U.S. soilders who had died that week titled One Week's Dead. This showed LIFE's stance on the war and further reinforced the arguments of those agianst the war. (LIFE, 1969). -
John Filo- Kent State University
A protest of the Vietnam War at Kent State University where the national gaurd was called to disperese the crowds. Real bullets were used and some students were killed. The picture, taken by student John Filo, of a student dead on the ground with Mary Vecchio crying over the body swayed public opinon even further agianst the war and showed the turmoil on the home front that accompanied the conflict in Vietnam. Photo: NPPA -
Vietnam Inc.
This book pictured the “why” or the destructive military and cultural presence the U.S. had in the Vietnam War.
It broke through mainstream media because Vietnam Inc. showed the negative effects of war, from families held at gunpoint by US marines to girl prostitutes, the combat had on the Vietnamese people.
Wiiliams, Val. "Philip Jones Griffiths: Photographer Whose Vietnam Images Changed Photojournalism." CNN. N.p., 21 Mar. 2008. Web. -
Napalm GIrl 1972
On June 8, 2016, North Vietnamese forces attacked the village of Trang Bang.The South Vietnamese Airforce mistook civilians fleeing as North Vietnamese Soliders and dropped napalm. AP Photogrpaher NIck Ut photographed Phan Thị Kim Phúc running in the road after two of her cousins were killed and her clothes were burned off. Ut's image won the 1973 Pulitzer for Spot News Photography. (Cookman 141) -
Fall of Saigon 1975
On April 30, 1975, North Viethnamese forces captured the South Vietnamese city of Saigon. Hubert van Es shot a photo of CIA station employees frantically trying to secure a seat on the last American Helicopter to leave the city. This image symbolized American defeat in South Viethnam. (Cookman, 139)
