Vietnam Inc.
1971 book by Philip Jones Griffiths / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vietnam Inc. is a photographic book produced by Philip Jones Griffiths and published in 1971 by Collier Books in New York, in both hard and soft back.[1] It contains 266 black and white photographs most with captions, sympathetic to the civilian perspective of the South Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War.
Author | Philip Jones Griffiths |
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Publisher | Collier |
Publication date | 1971 |
Pages | 221 |
ISBN | 0-7148-4603-1 |
OCLC | 207485 |
The photographs were taken between 1966 and 1971, some originally shot in 35mm colour slide format and converted to black and white.[2] These gritty, sometimes shocking pictures were described by the New York Times as "The closest we are ever going to come to a definitive photo-journalistic essay on the war."[3]
The book is considered a classic and its publication in 1971 contributed to the public opinion against the war.[4] The South Vietnamese government banned Philip Jones Griffiths from reentering the country in 1971, after the publication.[5]
The original hardback book has become a collector's item. Vietnam Inc. was republished in 2001 by Phaidon with a foreword by Noam Chomsky.[6]