my photos for class

Carrying a guitar and a M16 rifle, a Marine waits at a landing strip for a flight out of Khe Sanh, February 25th, 1968. Accompanying the music of the era was a new mood towards the war and a lack of faith in the objectives became more common among the servicemen than ever before.


Vietnam, 1969. Helmets were often used to express feelings and this soldier has written the word "HIPPIE" on his, in large letters.


The pilot of a US Cobra helicopter at Dau Tieng Vietnam, 1969. The stickers on his helmet read: "Bomb Saigon Now" - "Bomb Hanoi Now" - "Bomb Disneyland Now" - "Bomb Everything".



June 8th, 1972. A South Vietnamese air force plane has accidentally dropped a napalm bomb on the village 26 miles outside of Saigon. Twenty-five years later, the young girl running naked from her village, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, was named a UNESCO goodwill ambassador.


Saigon, October 5th, 1963. A young Buddhist monk sits impassively in the central market square, he has set himself on fire performing a ritual suicide in protest against governmental anti-Buddhist policies.


An adolescent boy scout, fighting on the side of the Buddhist rebels, stands in the street during the Da Nang Buddhist Insurrection, 1966.


I know there's more than three, but I really liked all of them and couldn't decide. >..< Well, I hope you all like them and I'll see everyone in class.

Chelsea. <3

Also, here is a little bit about the photographer, Tim Page:

Mr. Page managed under extraordinary circumstances, to bring back some of the most compelling photographs of the era. Most of these photographs and many more, can be seen in his book "NAM", published by Thames and Hudson Inc. Tim Page is a photographer, journalist, and author of Page After Page: Memoirs of a War-Torn Photographer. In 1965, Page began taking photographs of the border conflicts in Cambodia and Vietnam. Eventually, he became one of the most notorious combat photographers and renowned for the images he captured. In the movie epic "Apocalypse Now", the dope smoking, crazed photographer played by Dennis Hopper at the top of the river is said to be based on Page. Page's friend Michael Herr created the role and also wrote the well-known book "Dispatches", where Page is one of the main characters. Tim Page was wounded several times whilst working in Vietnam. Take a peek into the mind of Tim Page by reading "Memories of an acid-slaved war photographer".