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ruben
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Since I am connected to the History Channel of the cable TV, I don't know if my ignorancy is reducing or increasing, but for sure I am spotting many issues I was not aware of, and getting a visual impression worth of a thousand words. As you know, photos never lie.
All these has nothing to do against or in favour of a recent program there about the highly interesting story of Dickey Chapelle. The above sentence was just a disclaimer.
What can I say about this female WAR photojournalist, who started his career at WWII in the Pacific front, and died in the most front line of combat in Vietnam, by 1965?
She went to Vietnam at the age of 47.
In the middle she was at the Hungarian uprise of 59, the Fidelista movement, and perhaps I am missing something.
In Hungary, following a story of border crossing, she was made prisoner by the Communist authorities and spent 60 days in what today is called psycological torture, i,e, no direct phyisical pain, but that caused by continuous interrogation and denial of sleep.
In each conflict she participated, she violated every established rule to reach the most dangerous line of fire.
What makes her highly special, in my view ? Not her courage, which was indeed hard to match, but her political outspoken viewpoint, making her suspected as a CIA undercover, and a staunch Anti-Comunist crusader.
She is seen in a TV interview pubilcly and openly calling on behalf of American interventionism overseas in the most decisive and expressive words.
Non-standing her views I could symphatize and relate with this person, had she been alive today, I think. Because she was a concerned photojournalist. I.e, a photojournalist with a view, with an attachment, with a hope, with a cause to risk her skin for.
And she believed, as I believe, that having a clear world viewpoint doesn't contradict appreciating the facts before your eyes, provided you are aware of this detail
Yes, she used a pair of Leicas with which she had to suddenly jump to earth, and made the change into Nikon about the Viet-nam era.
Cheers,
Ruben
All these has nothing to do against or in favour of a recent program there about the highly interesting story of Dickey Chapelle. The above sentence was just a disclaimer.
What can I say about this female WAR photojournalist, who started his career at WWII in the Pacific front, and died in the most front line of combat in Vietnam, by 1965?
She went to Vietnam at the age of 47.
In the middle she was at the Hungarian uprise of 59, the Fidelista movement, and perhaps I am missing something.
In Hungary, following a story of border crossing, she was made prisoner by the Communist authorities and spent 60 days in what today is called psycological torture, i,e, no direct phyisical pain, but that caused by continuous interrogation and denial of sleep.
In each conflict she participated, she violated every established rule to reach the most dangerous line of fire.
What makes her highly special, in my view ? Not her courage, which was indeed hard to match, but her political outspoken viewpoint, making her suspected as a CIA undercover, and a staunch Anti-Comunist crusader.
She is seen in a TV interview pubilcly and openly calling on behalf of American interventionism overseas in the most decisive and expressive words.
Non-standing her views I could symphatize and relate with this person, had she been alive today, I think. Because she was a concerned photojournalist. I.e, a photojournalist with a view, with an attachment, with a hope, with a cause to risk her skin for.
And she believed, as I believe, that having a clear world viewpoint doesn't contradict appreciating the facts before your eyes, provided you are aware of this detail
Yes, she used a pair of Leicas with which she had to suddenly jump to earth, and made the change into Nikon about the Viet-nam era.
Cheers,
Ruben
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