Philip Jones Griffiths This amphibious assault was to establish a beachhead for a barbecue. Vast quantities of meat and beer were consumed while local Vietnamese looked on. Such activities were prompted to engender moral (...)
e among the troops and to expose the Vietnamese to what was considered the superior American ways of life. Cambodia. 1970 © Philip Jones Griffiths | Magnum Photos
Philip Jones Griffiths This guerrilla fighter had just thrown a grenade, killing one member of the platoon and wounded two others. In the resulting fracas, he too was killed. The incident occurred in what had once been (...)
a quiet hamlet in central Vietnam, probably in the very field in front of his home where he'd spent his youth tilling the soil. Quang Ngai. Vietnam. © Philip Jones Griffiths | Magnum Photos
Philip Jones Griffiths Vietnam. The battle for Saigon. Pity the poor fighting man in Vietnam. The problem was always too much water or too little. In the early days of the war, water was shipped from California, the indi (...)
genous sort considered unsafe. Later it was made "palatable" with huge quantities of chlorine. Wiser men know to fill up with the natural variety. 1968 © Philip Jones Griffiths | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson © Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson "People had waited all night in Trafalgar Square in order not to miss any part of the coronation ceremony of George VI. Some slept on benches and others on newspapers. The next morning, one who was (...)
wearier than the others, had not yet wakened to see the ceremony for which he had kept such a late vigil." London. Great Britain. Coronation of King George VI. 12 May 1937. © Henri Cartier-Bresson © Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos