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The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phúc Story, the Photograph and the Vietnam War, by Denise Chong, is a 1999 biographical and historical book tracing the life story of Phúc. Chong's historical coverage emphasizes the life, especially the school and family life, of Phúc from before the attack, through convalescence, and into the present time.
Catherine Leroy (August 27, 1944 - July 8, 2006) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications. [1]
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
The items were gathered by the museum and Vietnam Women’s Union since the 1970s. [8] A public relations specialist, Nguyen Bich Van, was also appointed to travel across Vietnam and persuade families to provincial women’s union organisations to donate clothes, photographs and other memorabilia pertaining to female figures in Vietnam.
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Photo taken in Nghệ An province (1920) of children playing a traditional. Commercial salon photography practices decreased with the onset of the First Indochina War (1946–1954) and Second Indochina War (1955–1975) and were displaced by representational photography practices such as photojournalism, that served to document historic events as well as disseminate images of war to an ...
Armed with a metal detector, Nguyen Thi Ha Lan walks slowly and carefully over unexplored empty fields in north central Vietnam's Quang Tri province. A ping, then whirr of the detector tells her ...
They were daughters of a Lạc lord in Giao Chỉ (now Northern Vietnam) and widows of aristocrats. They successfully formed their own kingdom in Mê Linh, where Trưng Trắc was proclaimed queen, and a capital was built for her". [23] While ruling in Mê Linh, the sisters abolished taxes, which had been especially cruel under Tô Định.