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 enlarge | Author: Larry Burrows
Creator: David Halberstam
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 281242
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 244
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 037541102X
Dewey Decimal Number: 959.7043
EAN: 9780375411021
ASIN: 037541102X
Publication Date: October 22, 2002
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Condition: New-no marks or weird stuff. Ready to ship to you! Larry Burrows's helicopter was shot down over Vietnam in 1971. Throughout the war until that time, Burrows chronicled the struggles of both troops and civilians.
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great October 20, 2006
I found myself looking through this book and looking hard into the eyes of the soldiers on the pages. Could these young men have been some of the young men from my hometown who died? Could they be any more normal than I was at that age? I recommend this to any person who is interested in the Vietnam war.
From a Vietnam Vet who knew Larry for 2 days in '68 September 11, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The First Air Cav, along with Burrows and a group of other reporters, was dropped into the hills around the Marine's Combat Base in the Khe Sahn valley. The brass, all the way up to LBJ, were convinced that there were 30,000 North Vietnamese Army (NVA) heard core, well armed and trained regulars surrounding that belegered outpost. The photographers/reporters were in the same bullseye that we were. We all were surprised that the rockets that were roaring in on our firebase didn't seem to phase them in the least. They said that "I can't get any pictures hiding in a hole!" so they didn't start digging their's until just before the sun disappeared.
This book is from one of the bravest and most driven men that I have ever met-- and he inspired me to follow my dream of becoming a photo pro. He had been kissing his wife goodbye in Hong Kong since the start of the insanity and said to me over a warm beer that he hoped he'd live to see the day when he'd cover the closing ceremonies when the war ended. He went down in Laos in a Vietnamese helicopter long before that day came.
His body of work that we are left with is nothing less then perfection but to him they were just his "Normal images", some of which he liked better then others. (He saw himself as a storyteller.)I see them as cutting through the clutter of information overload that is our daily challange and the photographs remain the icons of the era. The sensitivity and empathy that was his 'eye' and style allowed his cameras to give us stories that are nothing less then high art. This was evident even to hard boiled Marine Generals who allowed him access to places that no other media person was ever shown. He instilled trust that was all. His total mastery of the technical limitations of his 35mm boxes made them an extension of his brain. Watching how he held these beautifuly made, but combat hardened, Leicas was a major learning experience for a wanna be Life photog like me. He was very generous with his knowledge of the camera retail shops in Hong Kong. He gave me the name of the manager of his favorite store and how to get the best prices out of him. (I got wounded before I could use the information.) All in all, Larry Burrows left an impression on this soldier of being a throughly nice person. He may have been an icon to the staff at Life and his gaggle of admirers but he treated everyone that he came in contact with as equals. I knew that he would never make it out of Vietnam alive and was saddened to hear of his death 3 years after my short encounter with him. I since have bought every book that has even a mentionn of him. Rest in peace, Larry. Your images will live for ever.
 Real stories of war May 28, 2004
1 out of 33 found this review helpful
This book is good. I liked it. I like war books and movies because action is cool! The guns were the old kinds, like M60 machine guns. It was very bloody and contained torture, which seemed very real to me in a gruesome kind of way. I recommend this book to people who like war stories because it tells the truth about war.
The best of the best April 6, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Vietnam war was defined as the first total media war, television was in the ascendancy but it was through newspapers and magazines that most people got there view of the suffering. The three greatest war photographers of all time (Robert Capa is the forth) brought the war to the breakfast tables of the world, Phillip Jones Griffiths, Donald McCullin and Larry Burrows produced pictures which showed the true horror and futility of the Vietnam conflict. McCullin through the pages of the Sunday Times Magazine, Jones Griffiths with his book "Vietnam Inc" and Burrows in the pages of "Life" magazine. Larry Burrows was given the massive task of showing the war in colour. Colour was regarded as being too pretty for the hard hitting task of showing war, also the actual technical limitations of the colour film of the time made Burrows task even more difficult. The sensitivity was very slow and getting the exposure absolutely spot on was imperitive. The steadyness and consideration needed to get the pictures are not condusive to the nerves in the midst of combat but Burrows had the metal to get the job done. This book brings together his work from 1963 till his death in 1971 in a way that shows not only his skill as a photographer but also as a journalist who could visualise the images and create the difinitive "picture story" The reproduction and layout are excellent and to see the images virtually as they would have appeared in Life are a credit to Larry's son Russell. This is a must for anyone interested in photography and photojournalism.
 Great Collection of Photos March 20, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is an awesome collection of great photos. Larry Burrows did a fabulous job at capturing real life experiences in Vietnam. I commend him and David Halberstam for their professionalism and commitment to those soldiers who fought and died for our country. I only wish the descriptive captions were listed near the large photos in the book, not the back of the book. I'm sure the author had a reason for this. I strongly recommend this book.
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