Requiem:
By the Photographers Who
Died in Vietnam and Indochina
April 28 – July 22, 2007
Sponsored by Lincoln Financial Group Foundation
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The Fort Wayne Museum of Art presents moving and powerful images of the Vietnam War in a memorial titled Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina. This exhibition features more than 150 photographs taken by photojournalists who were killed or reported missing while covering the conflict. The exhibition encompasses photographs taken by the men and women on both sides who gave their lives while on the job, during the conflict which began with the French Indochina War of the 1950s, and culminated with the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975.
The photographs were among the thousands gathered by Horst Faas and Tim Page, two photographers who were wounded in Vietnam. Together these two men decided that the works of famous photojournalists like Robert Capa and Larry Burrows would hang alongside those of unknown photographers who contributed significant pictures before dying.
Photojournalists in Vietnam and Indochina sent out to the world unforgettable images of what they encountered. Hundreds of those photographers never came home. Requiem pays tribute to over 50 of those who did not survive. The power of the exhibition lies not only in the extraordinary photographs, but also in the viewer’s knowledge that the man or woman behind the lens would die—in some cases within minutes after capturing that image.
Requiem brings together photographers from both sides of the war—not only Americans Europeans, Cambodians, and South Vietnamese, but also North Vietnamese and Vietcong, many whose image have never before been in the West. Faas and Page searched through many archives, as well as accessing private collections of the families of the deceased photographers, to create this moving exhibition.
Beginning with photographs of a beautiful and peaceful landscape in the 1950s, the images of Requiem become increasingly more dramatic as they take us through the escalating military involvement, to the final evacuation of foreign troops, and to the killing fields of Cambodia.
“Requiem is a demonstration of what war did to the people who suffered and the soldiers who fought. The messages conveyed by the photographs of Requiem explain decades later, in very clear terms, what really happened in Vietnam,” said Dr. Anthony Bannon, director of George Eastman House. “We are proud to acquire this important exhibition and to share it with the world.”
Major support for the George Eastman House exhibition is provided by ESL. Sponsoring the exhibition in Fort Wayne is the Lincoln National Group Foundation. The exhibition was organized at George Eastman House by Marianne Fulton, senior scholar. Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina, is traveling under the auspices of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.
Lecture & Opening Reception
Friday, April 27, 2007
Free admission
Lecture by FMF Corpsman Paul “Buzz” Baviello
6 pm (gallery doors open at 5:30 pm)
Seating is limited to 150
Opening Reception
7 pm
Catering by Deli 620
RSVP to Brian Wagner 422-6467, ext. 338 or wagner@fwmoa.org prior to April 25.
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