Born in February 18, 1936, Rhuddlan, Wales
Died March 19, 2007, London, England
His Parents Joseph Griffiths and Catherine Jones.
He went to liverpool to study pharmacy and went on to work in London as a night manager for Boots branch in Piccadilly. Also working as a part time photographer for the Manchester Guardian. Philip never married but had several relationships of the years until he died of cancer in 2007.
War is unbelievable, Saigon 1968
There is a man in a room sitting causally on a nice wooden chair holding an assault rifle out of a window with his feet laying on the window cill in a relaxed manner. Surrounding the man are empty creates and boxes left in the corner of the room, laying next to the boxes are a couple of tools below where the man is sitting. Infront of the chair is a broken baby doll left by the people that one owned that place. Along the bottom of the picture there is a small cot covered by a sheet, this can suggest that a little girl could of lived in that room and put the doll in there.
Meaning
The description from the book says "the man was cover firing at a group of people that were attacking him and his squad. Not only this it also describes the fact that the man was causally sitting on the chair making himself look good by firing with only one hand. It makes the man look like he is enjoying himself as if he is glad that he just has to sit there and shot at the enemy.
Travelling around Vietnam, near the DMZ, 1968
Analysis
In the foreground in this image there is three man dressed in military uniform and each one of them is carrying digging tools (pickaxes and shovels) and all three of them are looking in the same direction as if they have seen something that doesn't look to pleasant. In the background there is a helicopter and there is men loading and unloading the helicopter, they are carrying guns, sticks and they are unloading a create of supplies probably filed with food and ammo for the guns that they are using at the time. The men are set in a grass field and there is a smoke Grenade dispersing smoke used to flag the helicopter down.
Meaning
This was the main way people would get around in the Vietnam war and it is how most of there supplies were given to the men that were fighting out in the battle field. It was the photographers main mode of transport during the war and he was documenting what would normally happen when a helicopter is would be doing a drop or is picking up soliders and taking them back to base.
Search and destroy, Quang Ngai province 1967
In this photograph you can see a soldier wearing glasses and is carrying a strip of heavy machine gun bullets and a assault rifle in his right hand. The soldier is looking at the women how is holding a child in her arms. Behind the women you can see some sort of basket like object or it might be the house she lives in and is sitting outside of the place. Behind the solider there looks like there is another solider behind him but all you can see is his feet and nothing else.
Meaning
The solider is looking at the women sadly this be because it is reminding him of home maybe or he fells sorry for them because they are living in a war zone. The baby is still as if it is not alive anymore or it is just sleep it is unclear as to what has happened to the baby but if the baby was dead the women would probably be a lot sadder than what she is right now. The barrel like wall that is behind the women it could be a tent of some sort set up because there could of been destroy or they got kicked out so that there house could be used as a out post of some kind for the enemy.
URL links http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/in_pictures_philip_jones_griffiths_/img/1.jpg
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http://s.spynet.ru/images/2009/10/07/vetnam/vetnam_4.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Jones_Griffiths
http://www.photohistories.com/images/74.jpg
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