Kyoichi Sawada 1966: World Press Award Vietnam War Family, Gelatin Silver Print

Description

Kyoichi Sawada
Captured Vietcong soldier, Bon Son, South Vietnam, Jan. 29, 1966.
Smaller sized press print to promote photo exhibition in Japan
Photo shows a Vietnamese mother and her children wading across a river, fleeing a bombing raid on Qui Nhon by United States aircraft on September 7, 1965. She and her four children were forced to leave their village, Qui Nhon, near Quinbonso. The U.S. Air Force had asked all inhabitants to evacuate the village because the Vietcong had been using it as a base camp to fire at the U.S. Marines. This picture was the 1966 World Press Photo of the Year. After Sawada won the prize, he searched and located the two families in the picture and gave them all the prize money, and each a copy of the photograph. Four years later
in Cambodia, 1970 Sawada was killed while on assignment.
K
yōichi Sawada
沢田 教一
(1936 - 1970) 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 these photographs were selected as "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 Viet Cong fighter to a burial site behind their M113 armored personnel carrier. He also documented the Battle of Hue in 1968. On October 28, 1970 Sawada and Frank Frosch, UPI Phnom Penh branch chief, were ambushed by unknown assailants and assassinated while returning to Phnom Penh by car while reporting in Takeo Province.
Details:
Smaller size press print made under permission of the Corbis Bettman Archive used to promote a touring photo exhibition in Japan in the year 2000 titled "
The Century of Photography". It was not made from the original negative, but instead from a master negative used to make prints circulated to Japanese media. A photo label with copyright and photo credit is affixed to the reverse.
Glossy RC gelatin silver print.
- Photograph date: 1965
- Print date: 2000.
Size:
6 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches (165 mm x 120 mm).
Condition:
Very good condition.
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Please check out our other auctions. We have a number of photojournalism images by W. Eugene Smith, plus W. Eugene Smith Grant winner Gilles Peress. Also David Douglas Duncan images of the Korean War and Pablo Picasso; Pulitzer Prize winner Kyoichi Sawada's Vietnam War images; LIFE Magazine photographers Margaret Bourke-White and Sam Shaw; surrealist views by Martin Munkacsi; famed artist portraits by Arnold Newman; fashion photos by Sarah Moon; documentary views of Paris by Edouard Boubat and Brassai; movie star and celebrity images of Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, John Huston, Lawrence Olivier, Joe DiMaggio, Paul Newman, and Robert Mitchum. Lastly we have art photos by Alfred Stieglitz.
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