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...television. On the Viet Nam battle field, news photography finally ceded immediacy to its rival. Could picture taking, no longer history's first witness, ever again be more than stenography? Eddie Adams, Philip Jones Griffiths, Don McCullin and Larry Burrows, among others, answered yes, as they found the war's significance in the interstitial details: the fear in a Vietnamese prisoner's eyes, the deathly immobility of a wounded U.S. soldier...
Boom-Boom. War photographers appear to be a breed apart-which is probably a good thing. "I used to be a war-a-year man," says the London Sunday Times's Donald McCullin, "but now that's not enough. I need two a year." Associated Press Photographer Horst Faas, who plastered his office in Saigon with atrocity pictures the way some men hang pinups, admitted to a colleague, "Vot I like eez boom-boom. Oh, yes." To New York Herald Tribune Reporter Marguerite Higgins, covering earlier conflicts, combat was more overtly sexual. She would not marry, she told...
...best work, however, is his war photography; he operates superbly under stress. "Anyone," he declares, "can take good war pictures provided he's in the right place at the right time." Perhaps. But only a small number of other photographers, such as Britain's Don McCullin or the U.S.'s W. Eugene Smith and Carl Mydans, have equaled Duncan in the dreadful succinctness of their images...
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