| Names: | Born: Henry Frank Leslie Burrows
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| | Dates: | 1926, 20 May - 1971, 10 February | | Born: | Great Britain, London | | Died: | South Vietnam, Langvie | | Active: | Global |
War photographer - particularly remembered for his terrifying images of the Vietnam War. He was killed in Vietnam while photographing the war there for Time/Life.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Spent nine years covering the Vietnam War before being killed when his helicopter was shot down over Laos. Burrow’s groundbreaking serial use of color for LIFE was part of the wave of appalling images that invaded America’s living rooms (15 cover photographs). His brutal and poignant compositions plus his use of color, evoking a sense of Old Master paintings, bore witness to and became synonymous with a terrible war and the camera’s ability to not only create a myth, but to show its exhaustion.
(Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
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| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website |
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• Bauret, Gabriel (ed. and text) 2001 Color Photography (New York: Assouline) [Includes example color photographs by Larry Burrows]
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