Ammunition Airlift into Besieged Khe Sanh
Artist
Larry Burrows
(British, 1926-1971)
CultureEnglish
Date1968, printed 1985
MediumDye transfer print
DimensionsOverall: 20 1/8 × 24 in. (51.1 × 61 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number86.76
Not on view
DescriptionThis is dye-transfer print photograph made from Burrows' original 35mm transparency, printed in March 1985.Label TextLarry Burrows English (1926-1971) Ammunition Airlift into Besieged Khe Sanh, 1968 Dye transfer print, 1985 Horace W. Goldsmith and Art Purchase Funds 86.76 While Larry Burrows covered many arenas of war in his lifetime, he is perhaps best remembered for the painterly compositions of mass, light, and shade that he made over a period of nine years in Vietnam. Although he lived and worked in the field for stretches of time, Burrows planned his images, carrying heavy loads of equipment and setting up elaborate compositions. At times troubled by the horror depicted in his often hauntingly beautiful photographs, Burrows nonetheless felt compelled to record these scenes in order to combat indifference towards and ignorance of the war's devastation. He was a staff photographer for LIFE until his death in a helicopter crash in Laos. In 1985, this print was included in the Chrysler exhibition Larry Burrows: Vietnam, The American Intervention 1962-68. Edited By: GLY Edited Date: 11/07/2003Exhibition History"A History of Photography: 15 Years at the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., September 11, 1993 - March 6, 1994. "Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 2004. Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson, _Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers on Their Art_ (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2004), 222-223.
Jack Delano
ca. 1940, printed 1981-1984
