Here's What Fighting the Tet Offensive Looked Like - as told by John Olson, former Combat Photographer Stars and Stripes Newspaper (in 2018)
#warphotography #Vietnam #exhibition #Newseum

C-SPAN's American History TV
https://youtu.be/Zmw3fC-GTyg?si=k-U9dkWZ3UUb11P0

Over 80 years ago, but it could be today, in so many places. Your photography history post for today: by Wayne Miller (1918-2013), Two Boys, Naples, Italy, 1944. #photography #WarPhotography #photographyhistory #worldwarII

Excerpts from his obituary in the New York Times: ‘Mr. Miller, the Chicago-born son of a doctor and a nurse, was given a camera as a high school graduation present and a few years later enrolled in art school. Quickly determining that it did not suit him, he joined the Navy, and that, perhaps surprisingly, was where he got his first real chance to do what he wanted to do: “to photograph mankind,” he once put it, “and explain man to man.”

Mr. Miller was one of a half-dozen photographers asked by the photographer and curator Edward Steichen to join a special Navy photography unit he had formed during World War II. Mr. Miller traveled the world in his new role, capturing American soldiers in battle from the Philippines to the south of France, hopscotching his way through combat zones with rare freedom for a soldier…

“Miller’s work is intimate but never presumptuous; each black-and-white image retains its mystery,” [critic Margo] Jefferson wrote. “You realize there is more to know about this community than a camera’s eye — or ours — can find. It is part of his gift that he knows this, too.”’ ~ By William Yardley, “Wayne Miller, Photographer of War and Peace, Dies at 94,” The New York Times, May 25, 2013.

Your photography history photo for today was taken 81 years ago: an Italian boy looks out over the river Adige and the Victory Bridge (Ponte della Vittoria), dynamited by the Germans, photo by Schmidt, 196th Signal Photo Co., Verona, Italy, 26 April 1945. #photography #WarPhotography #photographyhistory

From the Army Pictorial Center, Signal Corps Photographic Center: ‘The 196th Signal Photographic Company under direction of Army Pictorial Service became activated on 24 February 1945 at Trespiano, Italy…

The mission of this command was to gather both still and motion pictures. The pictures to be secured were of many varieties. While their primary objective was to secure pictures of combat, the various missions entailed all types of record, historical, publicity, strategic and others of a morale-building nature. The company had a laboratory, which moved constantly with the organization itself and a well set-up headquarters personnel which had to keep the forward elements of the command teams always supplied with materials and necessities to aid them in completing their hazardous missions. For instance, in keeping the vehicles always read for their difficult journeys through rough terrain. Seeing the food, PX supplies, changes of clothing and photographic supplies were ever on hand. The Headquarters camera repair department had to have the cameras always in top condition. This was particularly difficult due to the many miles that separated the photo combat teams and the headquarters of these teams…

There were many problems to consider. One of them was the difficult terrain over which the teams traveled and the absolute necessity of getting their pictures back to Corps. After all, old pictures, of a particular news and noteworthy occasion are of no value if too late to tie in with the news of that particular sector engaged at the time. Getting the pictures to Corps, then flown back to rear laboratories and processed and flown to the States after censorship, was carried on with the least possible delay. Another thing was the constant traveling forward and backward under constant enemy fire.”

In 1966, Joe Piette was drafted and sent to Vietnam to fight for the U.S. He soon came to believe that he was on the wrong side, bought a camera and began to document what he saw. For the ensuing 50 years, he's been an activist photographer, present at demonstrations in Sudan and Congo, at worker strikes and anti-ICE rallies. The Temple News, a paper for Temple University, talked to him about his life and work ahead of an exhibition at TILT Institute, Philadelphia.

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#Photography #Activism #WarPhotography

Ukraine: Four Years of Resilience in Pictures A powerful and necessary visual chronicle of four years of war in Ukraine. This selection from The Guardian brings together the work of dedicated photojournalists who have documented the frontlines, the shattered cities, and the unwavering resilience of the people. These frames provide a raw, uncompromising testimony of history as it unfolds. #Photojournalism #Ukraine #DocumentaryPhotography #WarPhotography #TheGuardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2026/feb/24/four-years-of-war-in-ukraine-in-pictures?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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French photojournalist Antoni Lallican killed in Ukraine drone attack.

Antoni Lallican, an award-winning French photographer on assignment in Ukraine, died in a drone attack in the eastern Donbas region on Friday, press groups have announced.

It is the first time a journalist has been killed by a drone in Ukraine in more than three years of war with Russia.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251004-french-photojournalist-antoni-lallican-killed-in-ukraine-drone-attack?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#AntoniLallican #WarInUkraine #Ukraine #France #Journalism #Media #Reporting #WarPhotography #WarReporting

What Catherine Leroy’s Fearless Photographs Reveal About the Vietnam War

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-catherine-leroys-fearless-photographs-reveal-about-the-vietnam-war