Close-Up on War : The Story of Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farrell, Mary Cronk.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leroy, Catherine.

War photographers--France--Biography.

Photojournalists--France--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Abrams, Inc., 2022.

Summary:

"Close-Up on War 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 20-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. In addition to texts by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalists Peter Arnot and Nick Ut, the book includes a preface, author's note, endnotes, bibliography, timeline, and index"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Map

Foreword

Chapter 1: A Man's War

Chapter 2: On the Ground in Vietnam

Chapter 3: Worlds Collide in Saigon

Chapter 4: Born to the Sound of Bombs

Chapter 5: Nowhere Near As Much Fun As You'd Think

Chapter 6: They Did Not Accept Me

Chapter 7: Itching for Action

Chapter 8: Is This Why They Call It Olive Drab?

Chapter 9: Proving Myself Under Fire

Chapter 10: Not Very Pretty

Chapter 11: Like You've Never Felt Alive Before

Chapter 12: Jumping for Joy

Chapter 13: A Door Opens to the Sky

Chapter 14: Everything Rotted

Chapter 15: A Big, Professional Success in Every Way

Chapter 16: Rumors and Gossip

Chapter 17: Battle for Hill 881

Chapter 18: Front-Page Pictures

Chapter 19: Cồn Tiên, Hill of Angels

Chapter 20: Thirty-Five Pieces of Shrapnel

Chapter 21: A Bombshell for Tết

Chapter 22: The Enemy Has a Face

Chapter 23: Return to Huế

Chapter 24: Photos "First Class"

Chapter 25: The Biggest High of All

Epilogue

Author's Note

How a Camera Worked in the 1960s

Glossary

Timeline

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Image Credits

Index of Searchable Terms.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781683359685

1683359682

OCLC:

1296426468