The cancer death, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 of anti-war free-lance photographer Phillip Jones Griffith [1] gives those of us who learned to understand war through his lens and those who loved his brilliant photographs an opportunity to review his legacy. A somewhat mis-edited NYT obit is here [2] which includes a link to a few photos. He sold his work through Magnum, a photographers’ cooperative of which became president and it is at the Magnum site that a massive display of his work is available. [3]
His photos were, in my view, eloquent. However, as a dedicated leftish, anti-capitalist, pacifist, he (perhaps losing confidence in his images) added somewhat slogany captions as in this Aperture interview-slideshow [4]. His 1971 photo collection Vietnam, Inc. [5] (recently reissued with intro by Noam Chomsky) shaped how many of us understood that war and inspired many of the images in Apocalypse Now [6]. Memories and appreciations of Phillip Jones Griffiths’ work have been collected here [7]
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