Image Bank Assignment: Larry Burrows

This is English photojournalist Larry Burrows, best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War.  He was born on May 29, 1926 in London, but left school at the age of 16 to work for Life Magazine printing photographs.  From there he went on to cover the Vietnam War taking several dramatic photographs of what was going on over there.  It was very brave of him to be so up close and personal taking his pictures, but unfortunately it did cost him his life.  Larry Burrows was killed covering the Laos invasion when a helicopter carrying him and other photographers was shot down on February 10, 1971.  He was 44

All of the other examples of photography in your image bank were good, but what I saw wasn't enough to catch my attention.  When I saw Larry Burrow's photographs, I was like "wow" because of how dramatic and in-your-face his pictures were.