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Farrell, Mary Cronk.
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Leroy, Catherine.
Photojournalists -- France -- Biography.
War photographers -- France -- Biography.
Women war correspondents -- France -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Journalists -- Biography.
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Farrell, Mary Cronk.
Leroy, Catherine.
Photojournalists -- France -- Biography.
War photographers -- France -- Biography.
Women war correspondents -- France -- Biography.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Journalists -- Biography.
MARC Display
Close-up on war : the
story
of
pioneering
photojournalist
Catherine
Leroy
in
Vietnam
/ Mary Cronk Farrell.
by
Farrell, Mary Cronk.
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams, c2022.
Call #:
770.9597 F619fa
Subjects
Leroy
,
Catherine
.
Photojournalists -- France -- Biography.
War photographers -- France -- Biography.
Women war correspondents -- France -- Biography.
Vietnam
War, 1961-1975 -- Journalists -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781419746611
1419746618
Alternate title:
Story
of
pioneering
photojournalist
Catherine
Leroy
in
Vietnam
Catherine
Leroy
in
Vietnam
Description:
xv, 304 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-298) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / by Peter Arnett -- A man's war -- On the ground in
Vietnam
-- Worlds collide in Saigon -- Born to the sound of bombs -- Nowhere near as much fun as you'd think -- They did not accept me -- Itching for action -- Is this why they call it olive drab? -- Proving myself under fire -- Not very pretty -- Like you've never felt alive before -- Jumping for joy -- A door opens to the sky -- Everything rotted -- A big professional success in every way -- Rumors and gossip -- Battle for Hill 881 -- Front page pictures -- Côn Tiên, Hill of Angels -- Thirty-five pieces of shrapnel -- A bombshell for Têt -- The enemy has a face -- Return to Huê-- Photos "first class" -- The biggest high for all -- Epilogue -- How a camera worked in the 1960s.
Summary:
Tells the
story
of French-born
Catherine
Leroy
, one of the
Vietnam
War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and became the only official
photojournalist
to parachute into combat with American soldiers. Later,
Leroy
was gravely wounded from shrapnel, but that didn't keep her down more than a month. When captured by the North Vietnamese in 1968, she talked herself free after photographing her captors, scoring a cover
story
in Life magazine. A recipient of the George Polk Award, one of the most prestigious awards in journalism,
Leroy
was one of the most well-known photographers in the world during her time.
Genre:
Biographies.
Other authors:
Abrams Books for Young Readers.
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