Through the Lens of Culture

Robert Adams. Colorado Springs, Colorado. 1968.
http://www.zingmagazine.com/zing3/reviews/036_adams.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vietnam War
1959 - 1975

"From 1945 to 1975 victory culture ended in America" - Tom Englehardt

 

“In taking this picture, I had destroyed his [the South Vietnamese general’s] life.  For General Loan had become a man condemned both in his country and in America because he had killed an enemy in war.  People do this all the time in war, but rarely is a photographer there to record the act.” - Eddie Adams

Saigon

Eddie Adams. Saigon. 1968.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kent State

John Paul Filo. Untitled (Kent State: girl screaming over dead body). 1970.
Marien, Mary Warner.  Photography: A Cultural History.  Second edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

 

Kent State student Alan Canfora speaks about the shooting of his friend, Jeffrey Milller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

utntiled

Partial transcript of the Mike Wallace interview with Paul Meadlo in which he describes his participation in the My Lai massacre:

Q. So you fired something like sixty-seven shots?
A. Right.
Q. And you killed how many? At that time?
A. Well, I fired them automatic, so you can't- You just spray the area on them and so you can't know how many you killed 'cause they were going fast. So I might have killed ten or fifteen of them.
Q. Men, women, and children?
A. Men, women, and children.
Q. And babies?
A. And babies.
Ron Haeberle & Peter Brant.  Q. And Babies/ A. And Babies. 1970.
Marien, Mary Warner.  Photography: A Cultural History.  Second edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Napalm Strike

Huynh Cong (Nick) Ut.  Children Fleeing a Napalm Strike.  1972.
Marien, Mary Warner.  Photography: A Cultural History.  Second edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

untitled

Kim Phuc and Nick Ut meet Queen Elizabeth II.  2000.
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0008/Exported%20GIF/NG53b.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Larry Clark
1943 -

 

Tulsa cover

Larry Clark. Tulsa. 1971.
"i was born in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1943. when i was sixteen i started shooting amphetamine. i shot with my friends everyday for three years and then left town but I've gone back through the years. once the needle goes in it never comes out." - Larry Clark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tulsa

Larry Clark. Tulsa. 1971.
Clark, Larry.  Tulsa.  New York: Grove Press, 1971.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accidental Gunshot Wound

Larry Clark. Tulsa. 1971.
Clark, Larry.  Tulsa.  New York: Grove Press, 1971.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pregnant Woman Shooting Up

Larry Clark. Tulsa. 1971.
Clark, Larry.  Tulsa.  New York: Grove Press, 1971.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baby in Coffin

Larry Clark. Tulsa. 1971.
Clark, Larry.  Tulsa.  New York: Grove Press, 1971.

 

“Yeah, you’re right. It’s like, I call myself a moralist and my friends fall down laughing. But it’s true! Look at the work—everyone always comments on the photo in Tulsa of a pregnant girl shooting up, like it’s exploitative. Look at the next photo! It’s a funeral. Of a dead baby. I’m always trying to get at the consequences of actions. And if it’s titillating? Well, sometimes I’m dealing with good-looking people having sex, sure, but that’s not the point. The point is the consequences.” - Larry Clark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kids

Larry Clark. Assorted scenes from Kids. 1996.
Riemshcneider, Burkhard and Uta Grosenick ed. Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Koln: Taschen, 199.

 

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