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In six pages this paper discusses how this acclaimed Welsh photographer captured the pain, suffering, and fear associated with the Vietnam War in his camera lens. Five sources are listed in the bibliography.
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shutter captured the essence of a people and the destruction of their unique culture. Griffiths went to Vietnam in 1966 when President Lyndon B. Johnsons rapid escalation of the
U.S. military involvement was commencing in earnest. What immediately struck him were the similarities between the Vietnamese and the people of his homeland despite the obvious differences in geography
and culture. He thought to himself, "Wow, this is Wales all over again. This is my village; this is how I grew up" (Howe). Griffiths connection with
the people of Vietnam was what he sought to capture with his camera. His images put a face on the war and humanized the calculated imperialistic desecration of a
society Griffiths believed could have taught Uncle Sam a great deal. The central thesis of his subsequent text on the war, Vietnam Inc. was "that the war was destroying
a society from which America could usefully learn, that everything happening in Vietnam was being done against the will of the people, that 2,000 years of tradition were being replaced
by an alien materialistic democracy" (Miller 211). The photographs Griffiths took while in Vietnam "shattered many of the myths" Americans had of the war as manufactured by federal government
propaganda, and significantly altered public perceptions of the war (Miller 211). As glimpsed through Griffiths subjective shutter, Americans could see the horrors of war and feel the pain and
suffering of Vietnamese men, women, and children. From Griffiths perspective, "There is no point in pressing the shutter unless you are making some caustic comment on the incongruities of
life. That is what photography is all about. It is the only reason for doing it" (Miller 211). He arrived in Vietnam with the preconceived notion that
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