US photographer’s touching pictures on Vietnam War
(VOV) -Renowned American magazine The Atlantic has revealed a touching photo collection on the Vietnam War of US photographer Eddie Adams.
Themed "Hands of a Nation", the collection features photos of the hands of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians which were busy doing so many things including reaching out for medicine, grasping weapons, straining against bindings, soothing, praying, and rebuilding, says the magazine.
Eddie Adams, who covered the Vietnam War for the Associated Press (AP), undertook the collection in 1968.
Here are Eddie Adams’s haunting photos:
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The loneliness and desperation of a refugee in Vietnam |
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A South Vietnamese soldier aims his pistol |
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A Vietnamese child seeks assurance |
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Hands in utter confusion belong to Vietnamese civilians attempting to assemble a carbine (rifle) |
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A Vietnamese farmer plants rice in the Delta region |
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The sweet life amid the war in Vietnam |
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A soldier ties a prisoner's hands (in Vietnam) |
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War's ugliness is depicted in the hands of the homeless and ill reaching out for medicine from a visiting military doctor in the city of Hue |
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A soldier squeezes the trigger |
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A Buddhist monk presses his hands together as an expression of gratitude |
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A 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who lost his arm when he tripped on a booby trap covers his face |
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A woman in Cholon lays brick in mortar. This is her third effort in rebuilding her home |
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A soldier with a grenade (in Vietnam) |
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Hands hold white rice (in Vietnam) |
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The war is over for this Vietnamese soldier |
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The Cholon district of Saigon |
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| Vietnamese woman applies makeup |
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A medic patches up a hand of a wounded soldier during heavy fighting |
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Vietnamese soldiers hold rifles |
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Hands of the homeless and ill reach out for medicine from a visiting military doctor in the city of Hue |
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A soldier smokes a cigarette |
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A Vietnamese person with a prosthetic arm |
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A seriously wounded Vietnamese trooper rests his head on his hands |
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A Vietnamese woman’s fingers clutch joss sticks as she prays for a departed one |
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Waiting to be evacuated, a Vietnamese soldier patiently nurses his wounded arm |
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A Vietnamese child seeks assurance in Vietnam |