PhotoBooks Vietnam

This volume is the result of an unusual collaboration between noted author Frances Fitzgerald and photojournalist Mary Cross. Both have travelled repeatedly to Vietnam and revisited the country together in 1999. From their extensive experience they have created a vivid look at Vietnam as it is today. This lush picture book of images of life in contemporary Vietnam is divided into three parts to reflect the country's three regions - North, Central and South Vietnam. Among the areas covered are rice culture, Confucianism vs. local tradition, the cult of ancestors, the role of Buddhism, ethnic minorities, handicrafts, the impact and the legacy of French colonialism and the American presence and war, and the tensions within Vietnam society today.

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Presents the work of photojournalists from fourteen countries portraying a reunified country still recovering from the wounds of war.

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In 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.

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.”

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Since the end of the war over 25 years ago, Vietnam has haunted America. Today, many people remember the war as a series of terrible pictures - taken by courageous civilian and military photographers. But there are other images of the war that we have rarely seen. These are the pictures taken by the other side, the Vietnamese, the enemy. Pictures of a peasant people fighting the most powerful nation on earth - and finally defeating it. In this book, we meet the Vietnamese soldier-photographers who risked their lives to capture their country's struggle in evocative, stunning images. For them, photography was a weapon used to win the war. Nine out of ten Vietnamese photographers were taken by bullets, bombs, dysentery, and malaria. Page returns to understand the spirit and dedication of these men, and to commemorate the sacrifice and loss of both sides. This is a new visual record of the war whose images have become so familiar. Through interviews with these photographers, and through their surprising images, a fresh per-spective emerges on the most troubling and divisive foreign war ever fought by the United States.

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Featuring a foreword by filmmaker Oliver Stone, a photographic survey of contemporary Vietnam focuses on the lives of ordinary people, documenting a vibrant, constantly changing country in more than one hundred full-color photographs.

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After many years in the spotlight, Vietnam kind of disappeared for a while; it was a pariah in American eyes for a long time after the war there ended, and the Communist government was inward-looking. But in the last few years, the country has reopened itself to the world, and now America is interested again. Epstein's photographs, all taken since 1992, record a Vietnam that still bears the marks of savage war. Rusting American tanks, planes, bombs and war detritus survive, and there are even the faded architectural glories of the French colonial empire that preceded American involvement. But Vietnam's own ancient Asian culture survives, apparent still despite the recent incursions of modern Western consumer culture. This is travel photography with an eye to the lessons of history, redolent of a bittersweet hope in the future.

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