Word: okamura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Akihiko Okamura is a courageous, persistent Japanese photographer who set out last April to see what the war in Viet Nam is like from the Communist side. Armed with six cameras, 182 rolls of film and a Vietnamese dictionary, Okamura, 36, simply boarded a northbound bus out of Saigon and sat tight. He did not have to wait long. Some 500 yards beyond Bencat, a government stronghold 27 miles from the capital on Route 13, five Viet Cong in dark green government uniforms boarded the bus. Two miles later, they ordered the driver to stop and invited the photographer...
...Okamura describes his experiences in the current issue of LIFE, the next few weeks were like passages from an Oriental Kafka. The villages he visited changed hands with maniacal rapidity. Once he saw a convoy sweep by, heavily guarded by U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers who protected themselves from ambush by spraying the jungle on each side with machine-gun fire. No sooner had the convoy passed than 500 Viet Cong on bicycles emerged from the jungle and pedaled madly in pursuit until it was out of sight. On his devious journey to guerrilla headquarters, Okamura was escorted...
...Arthur Okamura...
...Variety of techniques is astonishingly wide. With great economy, Josef Scharl captures Einstein wonderfully (see cut), Ben Shahn gets the rough ruggedness of Hemingway, and Arthur Okamura the glowering violence of Toscanini...