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Legend
- Location
- Sunny Frimley
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- Bill Palmer
Tim Page, who has died aged 78, was a British-born photographer who made his name covering the war in Vietnam with powerful images which helped to turn opinion against America’s role in the conflict; he won widespread acclaim for his work and was caricatured as the wild-eyed dope-smoking snapper played by Dennis Hopper in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
Full article here (may be paywalled):
www.telegraph.co.uk
As a child of the 1960's, watching the Vietnam War night after night on the news, the war photographers were my heroes. McCullin, Page, Jones-Griffiths and their ilk mesmerised with their ability to capture the moment in the middle of all the atrocity.
Page worked regularly with Sean Flynn, Errol's son, who went up country one day on his own to shoot a story and was never seen again. Page was deeply affected by his disappearance and to a great extent blamed himself. He spent years fruitlessly trying to establish what had happened to his friend and comrade. His books, Page after Page and Derailed in Uncle Ho's Victory Garden are moving accounts of his wartime experiences and of his search for Plynn.
Hopper played a similar character based upon Page in Apocalypse Now but Iain Glen captured him far better in Frankie's House.
An inspirational man. RIP Mr Page.
Full article here (may be paywalled):
Tim Page, hard-living Vietnam War photographer and model for Dennis Hopper’s snapper in Apocalypse Now – obituary
He cadged rides in US helicopters, put himself in the line of fire, took LSD and smoked ‘grass by the kilo’ – and was wounded four times
www.telegraph.co.uk
As a child of the 1960's, watching the Vietnam War night after night on the news, the war photographers were my heroes. McCullin, Page, Jones-Griffiths and their ilk mesmerised with their ability to capture the moment in the middle of all the atrocity.
Page worked regularly with Sean Flynn, Errol's son, who went up country one day on his own to shoot a story and was never seen again. Page was deeply affected by his disappearance and to a great extent blamed himself. He spent years fruitlessly trying to establish what had happened to his friend and comrade. His books, Page after Page and Derailed in Uncle Ho's Victory Garden are moving accounts of his wartime experiences and of his search for Plynn.
Hopper played a similar character based upon Page in Apocalypse Now but Iain Glen captured him far better in Frankie's House.
An inspirational man. RIP Mr Page.
