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Article: PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
- Author:
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Photographer whose Vietnam images changed photojournalism
Every so often, a series of photographs changes the way we look
at the world. When Collier Books published Philip Jones Griffiths'
Vietnam Inc. in 1971, the book was a revelation and, for Jones
Griffiths, a labour of both love and revenge.
Philip Jones Griffiths was born in 1936 in the Welsh village of
Rhuddlan near Rhyl in Flintshire. Growing up during a time when the
great picture magazines - Life, Illustrated and Picture Post - were
producing powerful picture stories, he became fascinated by photo-
reportage and its ability to open a window on the world. He taught
himself photography and before long was photographing weddings in ...
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March 24, 2008 ;
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... ... a game. Some thought the photographs taken by Philip Jones Griffiths, son of a railway manager and a district nurse ... bourgeois institution, though he had two daughters. Philip Jones Griffiths, photographer, born February 18, 1936; died ...
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