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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 were recorded
as missing or dead. This exhibition
is a memorial to those men
and women, and in many cases it
includes the last photographs they
took.
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. 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 their
compassion amid the brutality of
war.
This exhibition not only honors the photographers who died, but also the men
and women who fought in this undeclared war. The entire exhibition of
Requiem was presented as a gift to George Eastman House in 2001. We are
honored to make it available
for tour.
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Henri Huet. BONG SON, VIETNAM, 1966. Gelatin silver print. (AP) |
