The Style of Larry Burrows's Works

Larry Burrows's works provided the most complete video recording for the Vietnam War. 1962 when he first came to Vietnam, most Americans still lived a carefree life. People have no idea that one day Vietnam will bring endless troubles to the United States. In just a few years, things have changed dramatically. Bruns played an important role in telling people the truth. He went into the battlefield before anyone else. Moreover, he realized very early that this war is not only a major conflict, it will gradually escalate and even develop in a disastrous direction. Bruns is tall and dignified, just like an elegant gentleman, with the opposite temperament to the masculinity of a war photographer. He is also a bit withdrawn and likes to work alone. The story of Vietnam is also his personal story to a great extent. Sadly, he finally went to Vietnam. During the Iraq war, the military closely monitored the war photographers, and the American news media were reluctant to publish photos of dead Iraqis and injured American soldiers. However, as early as the early 1960s, bruns had complete freedom to film war scenes and their bloody endings. Ironically, photographers were originally allowed to film the war because the military thought that reporters on the spot could help the government public relations department sell the war to the domestic people. For several months, bruns followed the US combat team, flew by plane or helicopter, and photographed the wounded soldiers from the air: they were bleeding, lost their minds and lost in the jungle. Bruns also expressed deep sympathy for the sufferings of the Vietnamese people and regarded them as innocent victims of crossfire. What I saw and felt in Vietnam touched bruns very much. His heart is full of anger, and a sense of moral responsibility drives him to record everything with vivid color photos. At that time, the emergence of color TV, a new media, had made Life magazine feel the pressure of competition. However, bruns's works are enough to compete directly with TV networks. Compared with today, it was still an era when the color film was unreliable and the picture was not clear enough, but bruns's efforts in the darkroom for many years were richly rewarded. His color photos of Vietnam War not only changed what we can see, but also changed the way of watching-after bruns, war photography was not what it used to be.