Larry Burrows: Vietnam Review

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Larry Burrows: Vietnam ReviewLarry Burrows is perhaps one of the most underappreciated photojournalists of the 20th century. As a photographer for Life magazine in the 1960s, his images helped bring home to America the conflict in Vietnam, and Burrows' photographs showed a powerful sense of humanity, dignity, and even beauty that few 'war' photographers, before or since, have captured in their images. Burrows was able to see beyond the guns and the gore to bring back images that captured the human side of the conflict, and its effects on those caught in it. It's truly history's loss that Burrows was tragically killed in a missile attack in 1971, while covering the conflict he had been so drawn to.
Almost as tragic was the fact that for over 30 years, the images of this great photographer were obscure and nearly inaccessible: a retrospective ('Larry Burrows: Compassionate Photographer') was published shortly after his death, but second-hand copies of it are few, difficult to find, and expensive. A selection of his photographs was included in Horst Faas and Tim Page's 'Requiem', but otherwise no volume of Burrows' work has existed until now.
This book is an excellent and extensive collection of Larry Burrows' Vietnam War images, from his first reportage in 1962 (when the American presence was a small number of 'advisers') to shortly before his death in 1971 at the height of the war. It draws not only from his many published essays in Life, but also from the archive of his unpublished (and hence never-before-seen) works as well.
In short, it's a thorough, well-done book, the sort of treatment that Burrows' photographs have long deserved. Much more than a mere coffee-table book, it's the testament of one of history's great photojournalists.Larry Burrows: Vietnam OverviewIn the heat of battle, in the devastated countryside, among troops and civilians equally hurt by the savagery of war, Larry Burrows photographed the conflict in Vietnam from 1962, the earliest days of American involvement, until 1971, when he died in a helicopter shot down on the Vietnam–Laos border. His images, published in Life magazine, brought the war home, scorching the consciousness of the public and inspiring much of the anti-war sentiment that convulsed American society in the 1960s. To see these photo essays today, gathered in one volume and augmented by unpublished images from the Burrows archive, is to experience (or to relive), with extraordinary immediacy, both the war itself and the effect and range of Larry Burrows's gifts—his courage: to shoot "The Air War," he strapped himself and his camera to the open doorway of a plane . . . his reporter's instinct: accompanying the mission of the helicopter Yankee Papa 13, he captured the transformation of a young marine crew chief experiencing the death of fellow marines . . . and his compassion: in "Operation Prairie" and "A Degree of Disillusion" he published profoundly affecting images of exhausted, bloodied troops and maimed Vietnamese children, both wounded, physically and psychologically, by the ever-escalating war.The photographs Larry Burrows took in Vietnam, magnificently reproduced in this volume, are brutal, poignant, and utterly truthful, a stunning example of photojournalism that recorded history and achieved the level of great art. Indeed, in retrospect, says David Halberstam in his moving introduction, "Larry Burrows was as much historian as photographer and artist. Because of his work, generations born long after he died will be able to witness and understand and feel the terrible events he recorded. This book is his last testament."With 150 illustrations, 100 in full color

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