By the Photographers who died in Vietnam and Indochina
Published by Jonathan Cape London, 1997 – Gift from a private donor –
Location: Studio Sakse – Chiang Mai, Thailand
Edited by Horst Faas & Tim Page
Between the height of the French Indochina War of the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penn and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from different nations are recorded as missing or having been killed. This book is a memorial to those men and women, and in many cases, it includes the last photographs they took.
Horst Faas, two-times Pulitzer Prize winner and Chief Photographer for The Associated Press in Saigon at the height of the war, and Tim Page, another veteran who had been badly wounded, have gathered many thousands of photos from the Western agencies and from archives in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. These have now been assembled to form both a monument to the dead and a record of the most terrifying war photography ever taken. Never again will the media have the kind of access to the war zone that was offered to the photographers in Vietnam. In many cases, the photographers tried to get as close as possible, then paid the price.
