Title:
Close-up on war : the story of pioneering photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam / Mary Cronk Farrell.
ISBN:
9781419746611
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Publication Information:
New York : Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS, 2022.
Physical Description:
xv, 304 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 21 cm
Contents:
Foreword / by Peter Arnett -- A man's war -- On the ground in Vietnam -- Worlds collide in Saigon -- Born to the sound of bombs -- Nowhere near as much fun as you'd think -- They did not accept me -- Itching for action -- Is this why they call it olive drab? -- Proving myself under fire -- Not very pretty -- Like you've never felt alive before -- Jumping for joy -- A door opens to the sky -- Everything rotted -- A big professional success in every way -- Rumors and gossip -- Battle for Hill 881 -- Front page pictures -- Con Tien, Hill of Angels -- Thirty-five pieces of shrapnel -- A bombshell for Tet -- The enemy has a face -- Return to Hue -- Photos "first class" -- The biggest high for all -- Epilogue -- How a camera worked in the 1960s.
Summary:
"Close-Up on War tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the 20-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and became the only official photojournalist to parachute into combat with American soldiers. Later, Leroy was gravely wounded from shrapnel, but that didn't keep her down more than a month. When captured by the North Vietnamese in 1968, she talked herself free after photographing her captors, scoring a cover story in Life magazine. A recipient of the George Polk Award, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism, Leroy was one of the most well-known photographers in the world during her time. In addition to texts by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalists Peter Arnot and Nick Ut, the book includes a preface, author's note, endnotes, bibliography, timeline, and index"-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1242020565
Availability:
Lakeville - Heritage~1
