Larry Burrows

Vietnam Photographer

History

• Larry Burrows• May 6, 1926 (London)- February 10, 1971

(Laos)• Left school at 16, took a job at Life Magazine• English Photographer • Best known for his Vietnam Photos of the

American involvement

South Vietnamese guard threatens a captured Vietcong with a bayonet.

Dong Ha, Vietnam, 1966

South Vietnamese Marines on operation in the Delta Larry Burrows - 1962

• Professional photographer for life magazine• He covered a lot of violent places (tribal

conflicts, middle east, Vietnam)• Spent roughly 9 years covering the Vietnam

War• Burrows photos where color, stark and jarring• Blamed for melting Robert Capa’s D-Day

photos in a drying cabinet

Ammunition airlift during the relief of Khe Sanh. April 1968.

Battling for Ph Tasuos. Cambodia, May 6, 1970.

Men of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in prayer. October 1966.

A-1 Skyraider drops phosphorous explosives on a group of thatched huts. Ban De, 1966.

• Burrows died with fellow photojournalists Henri Huet, Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto, when there helocopter was shot down over Laos.

• They where covering Operation Lam Son 719.• April 3–4, 2008, the scant remains of Burrows

and fellow photographers Huet, Potter and Shimamoto were honored and interred at the Newseum in Washington D.C.

Operation PrairieHill 484, October 1966.

Americans of the 25th Infantry Division. Ph Tasuos, Cambodia, May 6, 1970.