Philip Jones Griffiths, Photographer, Dies at 72
By Megan • Mar 20th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyRandy Kennedy reports for The New York Times:
“Philip Jones Griffiths, a crusading photojournalist whose pictures of civilian casualties and suffering were among the defining images of the war in Vietnam, died on Wednesday at his home in London. He was 72.
The cause was cancer, said Richard Hughes, an actor and activist who befriended Mr. Griffiths in Vietnam.
The book that grew out of Mr. Griffiths’s reporting there, “Vietnam Inc.,” is considered a classic, and its publication in 1971 helped turn public opinion against the war. Its harrowing pictures — of a blackened burn victim, a thin woman’s body splattered with blood, a South Vietnamese boy in soldier’s fatigues, his head tiny beneath a huge helmet — were the kind not often seen in newspapers. And Mr. Griffiths, a pacifist passionately opposed to the war, never considered himself a traditional war photographer.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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