Henri Huet

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Henri Huet (born April 4, 1927 in ạà Lạt , Vietnam , † February 10, 1971 in Laos ) was a photographer and war journalist who became known for his reports and pictures about the Vietnam War .

life and work

Huet was born to a French and a Vietnamese woman. He spent part of his childhood in Vietnam . From the age of five he grew up in Saint-Malo , France . He studied painting in Rennes . As a member of the French Armed Forces , he worked as a war journalist in the First Indochina War . After the war ended, Huet stayed in Vietnam and worked for French and American news agencies . From 1965 Huet reported for United Press International on the Vietnam War (also the Second Indochina War ). His pictures for LIFE Magazine had a major impact on the American public's opinion of the Vietnam War. Huet was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1966 for his pictures of the theaters of war in Vietnam .

In a helicopter crash in Laos on February 10, 1971, Huet and the photographers Larry Burrows , Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto and seven Vietnamese soldiers were killed. Decades later, the four photographers received a posthumous appreciation as part of the Newseum , a museum for the history of journalism in Washington, DC, which opened in 2008. Horst Faas , the then director of the Associated Press photo agency, reported the fate of the photographers several times in lectures and in books treated.

Publications

  • Horst Faas, Hélène Gédouin: Henri Huet: J'étais photographe de guerre au Viêtnam , Publisher: Editions du Chêne 2006, ISBN 2842776542
  • Horst Faas (Ed.): Requiem. By the photographers who died in Vietnam and Indochina , Random, New York 1997, ISBN 0-679-45657-0
  • Horst Faas, Richard Pyle "Lost Over Laos: A True Story of Tragedy, Mystery, and Friendship", Publisher: Da Capo Press; ISBN 0306812517

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait of Henri Huet at http://digitaljournalist.org. Retrieved July 26, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Spiegel Online: Four Dead and a Glass Grave , April 3, 2008. Last accessed May 10, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Huet, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer and war correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Da Lat , Vietnam
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1971
Place of death Laos