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Article: OBITUARY: Philip Jones Griffiths.(Features)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2008
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HE CAME from a little country and saw through his boy's eyes that its culture was threatened from outside.
This gave him a sympathy for every David facing every Goliath in the world.
And then, one day, he pushed the button on the family's box Brownie camera and, in the photograph of his friend in a rowing-boat off Holyhead, he had held a tiny moment in history.
Many years later, in the sweating jungle, a Vietnamese soldier put a hood over this photographer's head and stepped back to pull the trigger. But the bullet missed.
Maybe it had just been a warning, a game. Some thought the photographs taken by Philip Jones Griffiths, son of a ...