October 2, 2012
Todor Ostojic, a photographer in London, is working on a photography project involving Vietnam veterans. "I would like to meet with veterans, do their portraits, interview them, and put together a blog entry with the…
June 6, 2012
"Lens" is the name of a New York Times blog that features photography, video, and "visual journalism." One of the current entrie s on the blog looks at the unique and innovative photographic images…
May 14, 2012
Horst Faas, one of the top photojournalists who covered the Vietnam War, died May 10 in Munich, Germany. He was 79. Faas served as the Associated Press's chief of photo operations in Saigon from 1962-72.…
January 25, 2012
Soldier/Many Wars (Decode Books, 104 pp., $60) is a book of stark, close-up photographs of active-duty service personnel and veterans divided up into two sections by the photographer Suzanne Opton. One section ("Soldier") is made…
December 1, 2010
The organization called ImagineItSkins.com has concentrated on helping children heal faster and feel more positive during hospitalizations by providing bright, engaging images to hospitals and clinics. The Utah-based for-profit company has launched a new effort to…
September 1, 2010
Marine Corps military photographer Randy Clinton is working on a project documenting memorial tattoos of people, including Vietnam veterans, who have died in war. "I sincerely believe that these tattoos say so much about the…
July 3, 2010
There was an interesting feature article in The New York Times a couple of weeks ago about Tim Page, the iconoclastic British photographer who made his reputation for his fearlessness (some say recklessness) covering the…
May 25, 2010
"Japan R&R: 1969" is the name of the new exhibit opening on Saturday, May 29, at the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago (formerly known as the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum). Every Vietnam veteran…
October 8, 2009
“A Day in the Life of an American Soldier in Vietnam, ” a photograph and artifact exhibit, went on display last week as part of the ongoing 20th Anniversary celebration of the Vietnam Center and…
June 26, 2009
On February 1, 1968, Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer who had been covering the war in Vietnam for years, clicked the shutter on his 35-millimeter camera during the chaos of the Tet Offensive on…