Larry Burrows Compassionate Photographer. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Larry Burrows Compassionate Photographer

Hardcover. 4to. Published by Time-Life Books, New York, 1972. Unpaginated (170 pgs). Illustrated throughout. Slipcased with color pastedown present to the slipcase. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Larry Burrows began working for Life Magazine in 1942 in London. In 1945 he started to photograph people like Ernest Hemingway and Winston Churchill. He didn't like being called a war photographer, but he spent much of his career on battlefields for the magazine covering conflicts in the Congo, the Middle East and Vietnam. He was a three time winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal for still photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise. He was named 1967 Magazine Photographer of the Year by the Pictures of the Year competition of the National Press Photographers Association This book has examples of his work in England, the Congo, Inida-China conflict in 1962 but for the most part it consists of the Vietnam war. On Feb. 6 1971, Larry Burrows photographed his last story -- the accidental U. S. Bombing of a South Vietnamese positiion near Laos. Four days later, the helicopter carrying Burrows into Laos was lost and at age 44 he was dead. This book contains some of the best photography to come out of the Vietnam war. EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall.…