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==External links==
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*[http://www.life.com/Life/burrows/burrows.html Life Magazine Tribute to Larry Burrows]
*[http://www.life.com/Life/burrows/burrows.html Life Magazine Tribute to Larry Burrows]
*[http://www.boggys.co.uk/download.php?filename=Larry_Burrows_PopPhot_71-07.pdf Popular Photography Magazine, Larry Burrows - A photographer's own story]
*[http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/lb_index.html Photographs]
*[http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/lb_index.html Photographs]



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Larry Burrows
File:File-larry burrows.jpg
Photo taken just before his death
Born(1926-05-29)May 29, 1926
London
DiedFebruary 10, 1971(1971-02-10) (aged 44)
Laos
NationalityEnglish
OccupationPhotojournalist

Larry Burrows (29 May 1926 in London – 10 February 1971 in Laos) was an English photojournalist best known for his pictures of the American involvement in the Vietnam War.

Life

Burrows was born in London in 1926. He left school at 16 and took a job in Life magazine's London bureau, where he printed photographs. Some accounts blame Burrows for melting photographer Robert Capa's D-Day negatives in the drying cabinet,[1] but in fact it was another technician, according to John G. Morris.[2]

Burrows went on to become a photographer and covered the war in Vietnam from 1962 until his death in 1971.

One of his most famous collections, published first in LIFE Magazine on 16 April 1965, was entitled "One Ride with Yankee Papa 13" .

Burrows died with fellow photojournalists Henri Huet, Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto, when their helicopter was shot down over Laos. In 2002, Burrows' posthumous book Vietnam was awarded the Prix Nadar award. At the time of the helicopter crash, the photographers were covering Operation Lam Son 719, a massive armoured invasion of Laos by South Vietnamese forces against the Vietnam People's Army and the Pathet Lao.

On 3–4 April 2008, the scant remains of Burrows and fellow photographers Huet, Potter and Shimamoto were honoured and interred at the Newseum in Washington, D.C..

See also

References

  1. ^ Flying Short Course: Evolving Newspapers Pushing Photojournalists For Video
  2. ^ Morris blames it on a young developer named Dennis Banks. John G. Morris, "Get the picture, A personal history of photojournalism", Random House Inc, N-Y 1998

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