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vietnam war and photography
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.it wasn't so much photos as TV news, night after night - since then the US military have taken much more care about stopping journalists reporting the news, eg by 'embedding' them with army units in the hope they will become biased. But there was a lot of memorable still photography. The most famous photos are probably these two:
http://www.hippy.com/trip/nam.jpg
http://www.anselm.edu/academic/history/graphics/execution.jpg
http://www.life.com/Life/burrows/vietnam.html
It was his picture features in Life magazine that had a profound influence on public opinion. They started at the beginning of the war being quite celebratory and glorifying the armed forces. As the war went on however his pictures became more and more graphic and in the end portrayed the US as the invading aggressors.
For me there were 2 photos in particular which summed up the horror of the situation (not that I was around during the conflict):
http://www.doublestandards.org/kimphuc.jpg
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http://www.themodelminority.com/misc/images/execution.jpg
This page also has the picture of the young girl running (1st link) sorry about that.
http://www.vietnamwar.com/phanthikimphuc.htm
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You might want to also include the Buddhist monks protesting against government policies by self-immolation. This lead to embarrassing press coverage : thichquangduc
Here are more links: mediacoverage
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~wilder/KickingVNSyndrome.html
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