Time Lightbox: 'The Best Photo From Vietnam': One Photographer's Defining Image of Wa

[furcafe]

Peter Van Agtmael interviews Art Greenspon:

http://lightbox.time.com/2013/09/11...tnam-one-photographers-defining-image-of-war/

 

[Michael Markey]

Interesting ....thank you for the post.

 

[tomtofa]

Can't help but think that the "best" photo from the Vietnam war should include at least some Vietnamese. Over a million of them died in it; choosing a photo that features exclusively American subject seems kind of narcissistic.

 

[Rodchenko]

I'd have to agree. The photo of Kim Phuc is the picture I imagine most people feel defines that dreadful episode.

 

[furcafe]

I agree w/your point about the neglect of the Vietnamese perspective, but I'm pretty sure the article headline was working off David Douglas Duncan's opinion that it was "“best picture yet" (April 1968) of the war.

Can't help but think that the "best" photo from the Vietnam war should include at least some Vietnamese. Over a million of them died in it; choosing a photo that features exclusively American subject seems kind of narcissistic.

 

[furcafe]

Photos from Vietnamese photographers:

http://www.anothervietnam.com/toc.html

 

[bonatto]

Anyone interested in more Vietnam material should consider the book by Philip Jones Griffiths, Vietnam Inc.

 

[kknox]

Great story. Thanks