| Names: | Other: Philip Jones-Griffiths
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| | Dates: | 1936, 18 February - 2008, 19 March | | Born: | UK, Wales, Rhuddlan | | Died: | UK, England, London | | Active: | UK / Algeria / Vietnam | | Gender: | Male |
Started working for The Manchester Guardian and then The Observer newspapers in the UK. In 1962 he covered the Algerian War but his major impact was during the Vietnam war with his book "Vietnam, Inc." This book is generally seen as one of the documents that changed the perceptions of the American public against the war. He has continued to work on the aftermath of the war in Vietnam producing books on Agent Orange and on Vietnam in general.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Since the 1950s Jones Griffiths has photographed in 140 countries and covered conflicts in Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Africa, and other trouble spots. His Welsh background gave him a natural sympathy for the Davids over the imperial Goliaths of the world. Jones Griffiths’ gruesome photographs, often of ordinary people, in Vietnam Inc. (1971), put a human face on the war. These disturbing images, which contrasted the extreme differences between the civilian and the military, helped arouse the ethical validity of the war in America. Jones Griffiths has a talent for making haunting images of incongruous situations, such as a half-black Vietnamese schoolgirl representing long-term human effects of the war.
(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]
(Used with permission)
General reading
Sayle, M., 1996, Dark Odyssey, (New York: Aperture) [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Griffiths, Philip Jones, 1971, Vietnam Inc., (New York: Collier Books) isbn-13: 978-0020804000 [First edition.] [Δ]
Griffiths, Philip Jones, 2001, Vietnam Inc., (Phaidon Press) isbn-10: 0714841528 isbn-13: 978-0714841526 [Δ]
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 | Philip Jones Griffiths: Vietnam Inc. |
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