New York Times, “40 Years Later, America Is Studying War Once More,” September 11, 2005 by Holland Cotter, review of “50 Years on the Frontlines: Philip Jones Griffiths Photographs” curated by George Carrano. “The impact of that war is graphically detailed in pictures by the veteran Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths in a career survey…For half a century, Mr. Griffiths has been placing himself squarely in harm’s way for the express purpose, it would seem, of stripping military violence of any trace of sugarcoating that politicians apply to it. His photographic account of a lacerating war that simultaneously devastated Southeast Asia and deeply divided the United States amounts to one of the great tragic portraits of its time and is required viewing in ours.”
New York Times, Art and Entertainment, September 23, 2005, Philip Jones Griffiths “Fifty Years on the Frontlines” curated by George Carrano, “His pictures of the American war in Vietnam, which make up a substantial part of this show, amount to one of the great tragic portraits of their time, and are required viewing in ours.”
Southeast Museum of Photography, “50 Years on the Frontline: Philip Jones Griffiths,” January 27 to April 14, 2006, curated by George Carrano.
See www.phototexts.org for more details about the exhibit.