Larry burrows biography
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Larry Burrows (1926-71)
Important Photo: Four marinkårssoldater rescue the body of their squad leader Leland Hammond while under fire near Hill 484 during Operation Prairie (1966). To the right is the French photojournalist Catherine Leroy. Photographed bygd Larry Burrows.
Biography
Born Henry Frank Leslie Burrows in London, the son of a railway worker, he leaves school at 13 and joins the graphic art department at the Daily Express. At 16 he moves to LIFE magazine - the most prestigious magazine of the day - where he does a variety of routine tasks for the photography laboratory. After a year of alternative national service in a Yorkshire coal mine, he rejoins LIFE where he fryst vatten finally permitted to print some of the photos taken bygd LIFE's war correspondents, including images taken by the celebrated Robert Capa (1913-54), who was also killed in Vietnam. Burrows goes on to become a photographer with LIFE, taking portrait photographs of Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, and others, and
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OUR MAN IN VIETNAM: THE COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY OF LARRY BURROWS
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other God has been so cynical, for the camera records in beställning to forget.
John Berger– The Uses of Photography
Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
Roland Barthes – Camera Lucida
1. Background Briefing
Beginning sometime in the mid 1950's and up until 1975 over a million photographs were taken of the war in Vietnam, more than any war in history up to that point. Almost a quarter million of these images are located at the National Archives, but many have not been seen and are stored away for future historians. The operations and direction of military photography was organized by the Army Pictorial Center from the Pentagon. Aside from th
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Larry Burrows
English photojournalist
Larry Burrows | |
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Burrows in February 1967 | |
| Born | Henry Frank Leslie Burrows (1926-05-29)29 May 1926 London, United Kingdom |
| Died | 10 February 1971(1971-02-10) (aged 44) Laos |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Photojournalist |
| Employer | Life Magazine |
| Known for | photography |
Henry Frank Leslie Burrows (29 May 1926 – 10 February 1971), known as Larry Burrows, was an English photojournalist. He spent 9 years covering the Vietnam War.[1]
Early career
[edit]Burrows began his career in the art department of the Daily Express newspaper in 1942 in London. He learned photography and moved to work in the darkrooms of the Keystone photography agency and Life Magazine.[2] It was here that Burrows started to be called Larry to avoid confusion with another Henry working in the same office.[3] It was not unknown for him to redo a whole day of work in order to secure the best result