Larry Burrows
U. S. Advisors, Mekong Delta

U. S. Advisors, Mekong Delta
U. S. Advisors, Mekong Delta
U. S. Advisors, Mekong Delta
ArtistBritish, 1926–1971
CultureBritish
Titles
  • U. S. Advisors, Mekong Delta
Date1962
PlaceVietnam
MediumDye imbibition print
DimensionsImage: 11 13/16 × 18 1/16 in. (30 × 45.8 cm)
Sheet: 15 3/4 × 20 1/2 in. (40 × 52.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.459
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionSome photographers have longtime relationships with a single magazine, while others work freelance as independent contractors or as part of a photo agency. Larry Burrows was 16 when he began working for Life magazine, and he soon became one of the magazine’s leading photojournalists in conflict zones. Burrows was one of the first photographers working for major magazines to shoot war in color. He spent six months producing a major photo essay on the war in Vietnam that was published in 1963. Fourteen pages long, it was the most extensive coverage of the war to date, and since they were in color, the images were stark and jarring to an American audience used to seeing such violent imagery in black-and-white. Burrows died at the age of 44 when a helicopter he was sharing with three other photojournalists was shot down over Laos.
ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History“Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 9–May 4, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso lower left a stamp in blue "© TIME Inc. / Reproduction without written / consent is expressly prohibited"
lower right a stamp in blue with pencil addition "LARRY BURROWS: VIETNAM / THE AMERICAN INTERVENTION / PROOF 'A' / PUBLISHED BY / LAURENCE MILLER GALLERY INC."

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