Henri Huet was a French photographer (born April 4, 1927 in Da Lat, Vietnamese , and died on February 10, 1971 in Laos) known for his images of Vietnam.
Biography
- son of a French engineer and a Vietnamese, after 5 years he traveled to France, was educated at Saint-Malo, Brittany.
- studied at the School of Rennes and began his career as a painter.
- Then he joined the French Navy , where he learned photography, returning to Vietnam in 1949 as a combat photographer during the First Indochina War.
- After retiring from the navy at the end of the war, in 1954, remained in Vietnam as a civilian photographer working for the American and French governments.
- worked for United Press International (UPI), and was later transferred to Associated Press (AP) in 1965, covering the Vietnam War.
- His photographs of the war were very important in shaping American public opinion. One of his most memorable series of pictures is where it appears Thomac Cole, a young doctor of First Cavalry, serving comrades despite his own wounds. The series of 12 photographs was published on February 11, 1966 on the issue of the journal Life, one of the most captivating images on the cover.
- won the gold medal Robert Capa in 1967.
- In 1971, the operation Lam Son 719 in which invaded southern Laos, two helicopters were shot down perishing journalists Huet and his fellow English Larry Burrows of the journal Life, American Kent Potter of UPI and Japanese Keizaburo Shimamoto, freelance work for Newsweek .
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