My choice was to get as close to the action in vietnam as i possibly could. I was writing features about kids from fort worth. It is the single most rewarding thing i ever did in all my years in journalism because this would brighten up their day that someone from their hometown would look them up. My best pictures were not on the periphery of the fighting but were woven through it. The kind of pictures i took showed people waiting for something to happen. I basically tried to block out the emotional side of it in the early years, because i really believe that the journalism of detachment was what war coverage was all about. I was very jingoistic when i got there in the beginning. When i got back, i was convinced the war, whatever our good intentions, simply could not be won. Part of the reason i have always done it is a sense of wanting to be where the action is. In the bigger theater, we cast a light in dark corners around the world that you would not see without photographers. So, t
My choice was to get as close to the action in vietnam as i possibly could. I was writing features about kids from fort worth. It is the single most rewarding thing i ever did in all my years in journalism because this would brighten up their day that someone from their hometown would look them up. My best pictures were not on the periphery of the fighting but were woven through it. The kind of pictures i took showed people waiting for something to happen. I basically tried to block out the emotional side of it in the early years, because i really believe that the journalism of detachment was what war coverage was all about. I was very jingoistic when i got there in the beginning. When i got back, i was convinced the war, whatever our good intentions, simply could not be won. Part of the reason i have always done it is a sense of wanting to be where the action is. In the bigger theater, we cast a light in dark corners around the world that you would not see without photographers. So, t
My choice was to get as close to the action in vietnam as i possibly could. I was writing features about kids from fort worth. It is the single most rewarding thing i ever did in all my years in journalism because this would brighten up their day that someone from their hometown would look them up. My best pictures were not on the periphery of the fighting but were woven through it. The kind of pictures i took showed people waiting for something to happen. I basically tried to block out the emotional side of it in the early years, because i really believe that the journalism of detachment was what war coverage was all about. I was very jingoistic when i got there in the beginning. When i got back, i was convinced the war, whatever our good intentions, simply could not be won. Part of the reason i have always done it is a sense of wanting to be where the action is. In the bigger theater, we cast a light in dark corners around the world that you would not see without photographers. So, t
The marines were very generous to everybody, giving candy to children and inspiring the sense of safety and hope for the future. They were truly the statement of freedom and democracy. There are many tragic images from the war and from my home town. But they were also some good memories and events which should not be overshadowed by the destruction of the war. Today i live in austin with two sons born here and my wife tanya. Im lucky. I am a chairman of magrabbit, inc. , a Global Software Company Founded 25 years ago in austin. We have several offices, but two offices that are dear to me, array, and da nang city. I am personally grateful for the soldiers who risked their lives in the vietnam war and also for the United States of america which had afforded me the opportunity to make the most of my life here in austin and this country. Ladies and gentlemen, David Hume Kennerly had been shooting in the frontlines of history for 50 years. At age 25 years, he is one of the youngest winners
Scholar and museum professor. She manage her own time, and find money to get big projects done. I was spending much of my time on this one project, she was simultaneously conducting original research, writing unique exhibition lists for different venues. Teaching and coordinating the senior thesis show at the school of visual arts. All well writing the book and compiling the first ever catalog of riiss photographs. In the years it has taken to get inexhibitions mounted and this book published she has worn any sev single different hat in the business. None of this could have been done without her passion for her subject. I will let bonny take the stage. [ applause ] thank you so much. Im moved. Thank you very much. Welcome, everyone. Okay. So im going to read. Pretty much. Lets see what we have to say here. The im going to repeat a little bit of what amy did, to just make sure that we understand how these different parts of the project fit together. The jacob riis exhibition on view in