Requiem

Henri Huet.
BONG SON, VIETNAM, 1966.
Gelatin silver print. (AP)

Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict were recorded as missing or dead. This exhibition is a memorial to those men and women, and in many cases it includes the last photographs they took.

Horst Faas and Tim Page, two photographers who worked and were wounded in Vietnam, have gathered many thousands of pictures by those who were killed. The resulting sequence of photographs follows the course of the war and the transformation of the serene landscapes of Cambodia and Vietnam into scenes of nightmarish devastation. At the moments of intense battle one is reminded not only of the courage of the photographers but of their compassion amid the brutality of war.

This exhibition not only honors the photographers who died, but also the men and women who fought in this undeclared war. The entire exhibition of Requiem was presented as a gift to George Eastman House in 2001. We are honored to make it available for tour.

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