Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Requiem Redux
From: chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:03:41 -0700

Definitely worth seeking out, and if you don't have access to the print
edition, the story and some of the pictures can be found at
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/041900vietnam-photos.html
(registration required, if you've never visited the NY Times Web site
before).

As B.D. noted, this project is being run by the same people who retrieved
the negatives from the Khmer Rouge "interrogation center" (the Khmer Rouge
were as anal-retentive as the Nazis when it came to documenting who they
killed, but they had to high-tail it out of town before they could destroy
their records) and published the victims' portraits in book "The Killing
Fields."

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.

> The NYTimes this a.m. had a fascinating story about a couple of Americans
> who are in Vietnam scrounging up and organizing the photos taken by then
> NVietnamese combat photographers. There is, in fact, a terrific photo on
> page 1 of a wounded soldier being carried to an operating table at a field
> hospital ---- in water in a swamp. The folks doing this are the same
people
> who put together the book of Khmer Rouge victims....Interesting
story....and
> there are some photos at the times Website...
>
> B. D.
>
>