Writing in the BJP Ainslie Ellis said, 'I can think of no other photographic exhibition that commanded quite the same amount of interest, comment and warm affection. It glowed on the walls, that Lartigue show, with a strange mixture of a talented eye, a sense of fun a high sense of style and a love of life. The Photographers' Gallery was opened by Tom Hopkinson on 14 January in London's Great Newport Street in premises that were formerly a Lyons tea shop. Reportage Photos help end conflict Still photographs and news coverage of the conflict in Vietnam played a crucial role in mobilising anti-war sentiment, thereby speeding up US withdrawal from South East Asia. Every piece of war film takes on a certain anti-war character simply because it does not glamorise or romanticise.
Television tells it that way.
Finishing on 30 April, the various conflicts in South East Asia claimed the lives of 135 photographers including Magnum's co-founder Robert Capa. BJP contributor, Gerry Badger said, 'Whatever criticisms one might have about the exhibition - it remains the finest and the most stimulating show that we have seen yet in Britain. Photographer Imogen Cunningham has died at the age of 93 after a photographic career that flourished for an astonishing 75 years, a period equivalent to half the span in which photography has existed. Cunningham was an American photographer of major international importance. She tended to be regarded as an extraordinary forthright, often uncomfortably honest, caustically witty, and engagingly eccentric personality, a view which, however appealing has largely obscured the fact that she was an accomplished image maker who retained her creativity and originality for the duration of an exceptionally lengthy career.