Requiem

Description

Contains the work of 135 photographers who had died in Indochina between 1945 and 1975. Pictures from *Requiem* have been exhibited in museums in the United States, Europe and Vietnam, and the book won a George Polk Award for journalism. It also received the Robert Capa Gold Medal.

Description

Horst Faas and Tim Page, two photographers who worked and were wounded in Vietnam, have gathered many thousands of pictures by those who were killed. Their search has taken them through the archives in Hanoi as well as those of Western agencies. In some cases families have generously provided access to private files where unknown bodies of work have lain unseen for more than forty years. The list of the dead includes some of the greatest photographers of the century, such as Robert Capa and Larry Burrows, and some who had been working in Vietnam for only a matter of days before their deaths. A number of the Cambodian photographers working for the Western press were executed. Other photographers, like Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, disappeared. Their loss inspired Tim Page to begin this memorial. The resulting sequence of photographs follows the course of the war and the transformation of the serene landscapes of Cambodia and Vietnam into scenes of nightmarish devastation.

Subjects

Genres

• Pictorial works.

Other Editions

• Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and IndochinaRandom House1997-01-01
• RequiemHardcoverRandom House1997-10-07
• RequiemHardcoverRandom House1997-10-07
• RequiemHardcoverRandom House1997-10-28