Vietnam photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths, 72
Posted: Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 10:23 pm
LONDON (AP) — Philip Jones Griffiths, a photojournalist who spent years traveling across Vietnam to capture the effects of the war on its people, died Wednesday. He was 72. …
Jones Griffiths was perhaps best known for his book “Vietnam Inc.” — described as one of the most detailed studies of any conflict.
In one of the book’s most haunting photos, he captured the image of a naked, young boy cowering and covering his ears to drown out the sound of a passing U.S. helicopter. He wrote that the unnamed boy went mad after witnessing his mother killed by a helicopter gunship. … Read full obituary
