AGENCIES AND ASIA

Pictures of an era that has made history, not dissimilar from the ones brought by the war into everyday TV shows. These pictures are 40 years old, but they look present because the war removes the time from people’s faces, and desperation and terror have only one face. Faces of politicians, of militaries, who played in the theater of the most populated continent: Asia. Two economic systems, two different conceptions of Country and of men’s lives were confronted through enormous tragedies that have affected generations of men and women, tragedies whose roots were born several decades before those clashes. A succession of pictures starting from the flyers for the psychological warfare between Americans and Vietcong, to go to the smiling face of Van Nguyen Giap, and then slip back to the terror of men caught blindfolded and forced to undergo the tortures of the other party, passing through Lon Nol’s letter censored by the Cambodian regime before the Khmer Rouge arrived in Phnom Penh, and then to get to the concerts of Bob Hope given for American soldiers in Vietnam to get the nightmare of Vietcong ambushes out of their brains. Fragmentary pictures that even when taken and considered each separately, bring to the experience of being back in a generation: the Vietnam generation!

Escaping in the ricefieldsHaiphong, Vietnam Jan 21 1973 Bombed homesHenri Kissinger arrived in Paris to meet Le Duc Tho of North VietnamKieu Samphan. Cambodia Aug. 22 1975Marshall Chang Kai Chek during a public visit in Taiwan. 1974Nguyen Thi Binh at Berlin Airport June 26 1969 - © Carlo SaccoOfficial secret meeting where was decided the final attack of Saigon.1975. - © Carlo SaccoU.S. Psicological war propaganda against Viet Cong. - © Carlo SaccoParis, Dec. 1971 Rally against Indochina warPsicologic war. Vietcong flyer propaganda - © Carlo SaccoSouth Vietnamese soldier showing an Ho Chi Minh portrait near Quang TriSupply Road on the river between Lushai Hills. Burma 1945Suspect vietcong. South VietnamVietcong village under GI attack. South VietnamVo Nguyen Giap at his home on 45th anniversary of Dien Bien - © Nguyen Van Ku
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