MetaFilter posts tagged with Vietnam and photography

Iconic Image from the Vietnam war.

HuronBob — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 06:41:36 -0800

The photograph of 9 year old Phan Thi Kim Phuc (often referred to as the "napalm girl"), taken nearly 40 years ago on June 8th in 1972 by press photographer Nick Ut, won a Pulitzer Prize at the time and became one of the most important images from the Vietnam War era. Although Nixon doubted the veracity of the images, video taken just before and after that photograph seem to support the fact that the event did, in fact, happen. Kim Phuc has since created a foundation (note, link for future reference, it seems to have exceeded its bandwidth at the moment) to provide medical and psychological support to the victims of war. Photographer Nick Ut now lives in L.A. and works for the Associated Press. warning: links point to images and video of a naked child and may be very disturbing

This is actually the last level in "Frogger."

bayani — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:08:54 -0800

"Where I come from, a little patience at the crosswalk usually rewards me with a stoplight-induced pause in traffic, but here things are different. One had to simply cross, stride forward into the asphalt gauntlet with no fear, just faith that two intersecting streams of traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian, would reconcile themselves. And they always did." Photographer Rob Whitworth stitches together 10,000 images to bring you a very kinetic time-lapse video of "Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam." [via]

Captured:

docgonzo — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:13:32 -0800

Captured: A Look Back at the Vietnam War on the 35th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. (The following photo collection contains some graphic violence and depictions of dead bodies.)

An ancestor story

unliteral — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:52:49 -0800

đẹp khoe, xấu che, or “show the good, hide the bad” - from the inaugural issue of the Trans Asia Photography Review. The first thing that struck me when I first viewed the family portrait was, why is it scratched like that? The article reveals why, and more.

Showing the horror of war

homunculus — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:15:14 -0800

People can handle the truth about war. Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas reflects on how the media's willingness to show the horrors of war has changed since Vietnam.

Image of the Year.

kittens for breakfast — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:47:46 -0800

Image of the Year. From the article: "If you want to go shallow for an Image of the Year, you can't do better than Paris Hilton, seen through the window of a Los Angeles sheriff's car, weeping as she's being hauled back to prison to complete a probation-violation sentence. But when you first notice the credit on that now infamous picture, there's a double take. The image came from the camera of Nick Ut, whose picture of a little girl burned by napalm, naked and running directly toward the camera and into the conscience of the American people, became perhaps the most powerful and influential vision of the Vietnam War. Not only was the Paris Hilton image taken by one of this country's most celebrated war photographers, it was taken June 8, 35 years to the day after the devastating image of 9-year-old Kim Phuc fleeing her bombed-out village. Let's put these two pictures up on the wall together for one last, end-of-the-year look, and see if something emerges."

No one here gets out alive

adamvasco — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:37:11 -0800

Underfire; images from the Vietnam war. Some photographers never made it out: Dana Stone, Henri Huet, Sean Flynn. Tim Page is still alive and his photos tell the story of 'Fire in the Jungle". Several of these almost forgotten legends hung out at Franki's House at one time or another. Page, Stone and Flyn were all friends of Michael Herr who wrote about them and the war in Dispatches which was widely acclaimed and acknowledged by Hunter S. Thompson as puts the rest of us in the shade.

Sex, Drugs, and Agent Orange

bcveen — Sat, 06 May 2006 03:53:21 -0800

On at least one occasion, Jonathan Taylor's photographic studies of the seedy side of Southeast Asia have featured in Time Magazine, but thanks to the wonders of the Internet, you can view his photographic take on Thailand's drug problems, sex industry, and hired killers, as well as moving and disturbing images of the legacy of US involvement in Southeast Asia.

Hanoi Panoramas

MetaMonkey — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:39:30 -0800

Hanoi Panoramas
Beautifuly atmospheric 360 degree photography in the streets of Hanoi, by Vietnamese photographer Thinh Le. Also black and white panoramas of Downtown Saigon and Chaudoc. A little info on the camera and technique.

Geoffrey Hiller's Amazing Photos

Masi — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 06:44:36 -0800

Canto do Brasil [Flash, sound, MiguelCardosoFilter] is a street-level view of Brazil made by photographer Geoffrey Hiller, more precisely a view of Salvador Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo.

Another amazing project of his is Burma, Grace Under Pressure [Flash, sound], exposing Burma's beauty and sadness.

Also check Eastern Europe: Visions & Icons [Flash] ,where Hiller's post-Berlin Wall photographs are accompanied by Lev Liberman's moving text, New York City: After The Fall [Flash, sound], an elegy to New Yorkers affected by 9/11, and his journal from Vietnam.

View the Wall.

jragon — Fri, 28 Jun 2002 09:50:22 -0800

View the Wall. Recently a group of photographers took photos of every name on the Vietnam Memorial, did some magic in Quicktime VR, and now you can search the entire wall virtually. Nothing is as good as actually being there, but this is a close second.