Military Photographer

[andyz]

I saw this Pop Photo article and immediately thought of our own Daniel Bates.

Front Lines: Life as a US Military Photographer | Popular Photography

Hats off to Daniel and any others on Pixtus as well.

Shooting football from the sidelines, you have to think of the lens you're using as "objects may be larger than they appear." The same would apply here, but the risk is greater.

[Patti Edens]

Andy,

Thanks for the link. That was very interesting! I have trouble remembering simple things when I'm out photographing birds - forget to change the ISO as it gets lighter in the morning, forget to change from jpeg back to raw after shooting a time lapse, etc. I can't imagine getting anything right if someone was shooting at me or even if there was a possiblity that someone might shoot at me. Cripes.

Daniel, If you see this thread, let us know what it is like for you...if you can do so without having to shoot us...with that other tool. :)

[lfmerrell]

One quite somber title on photography of the Vietnam War and war photography.

Amazon.com: Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina (9780679456575): Horst Faas, Tim Page: Books

Amazon.com: Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina (9780679456575): Horst Faas, Tim Page: Books

Book Description
ISBN-10: 0679456570 | ISBN-13: 978-0679456575 | Publication Date: October 7, 1997 | Edition: 1
Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict 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.
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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.
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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.
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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. At the moments of intense battle one is reminded not only of the courage of the photographers but of the compassion amid the brutality of war. These photographers were intimate with war to a degree that may well be denied future generations. That intimacy led to their deaths. Their photographs are their legacy.