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Kyōichi Sawada
was a Japanese photographer with United Press International who received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. Two of those photographs were selected as "World Press Photo of the Year, World Press Photos of the Year" in 1965 and 1966. The 1965 photograph shows a Vietnamese mother and children wading across a river to escape a US bombing. The famous 1966 photograph shows U.S soldiers of the 1st Infantry division dragging a dead National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, Viet Cong fighter to a burial site behind their M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, M113 armored personnel carrier, after he was killed in a fierce night attack by several Viet Cong battalions against Australian forces during the Battle of Suoi Bong Trang on 24 February 1966. He also documented the Battle of Hue in 1968, for example, capturing an image of Lance Corporal Don Hammons immediately after being wounded by enemy fire; Hammons died minutes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōichi Sawada (1965)
was a Japanese photographer with United Press International who received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. Two of those photographs were selected as "World Press Photo of the Year, World Press Photos of the Year" in 1965 and 1966. The 1965 photograph shows a Vietnamese mother and children wading across a river to escape a US bombing. The famous 1966 photograph shows U.S soldiers of the 1st Infantry division dragging a dead National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, Viet Cong fighter to a burial site behind their M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, M113 armored personnel carrier, after he was killed in a fierce night attack by several Viet Cong battalions against Australian forces during the Battle of Suoi Bong Trang on 24 February 1966. He also documented the Battle of Hue in 1968, for example, capturing an image of Lance Corporal Don Hammons immediately after being wounded by enemy fire; Hammons died minute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
