{"id":23837,"date":"2009-05-15T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/uncategorized\/war-photographer-van-es-bows-out-23837"},"modified":"2014-09-02T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:26:04","slug":"war-photographer-van-es-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/war-photographer-van-es-bows-out\/","title":{"rendered":"War photographer Van Es bows out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Hubert Van Es, who will be remembered for one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War, has died aged 67.<\/p>\n<p>The picture shows a US helicopter evacuating US citizens from the roof of a building in Saigon in 1975 &#8211; an image forever linked with the fall of Saigon.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the building was reported as being the &#8216;US Embassy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>However, all was not as it seemed in the photograph, as the Dutch photographer explained in 2005. <\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/04\/29\/opinion\/29van_es.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\" title=\"New York Times\">article<\/a> for the <em>New York Times<\/em> Van Es wrote: &#8216;In fact the photo is not of the embassy at all; the helicopter was actually on the roof of an apartment building in downtown Saigon where senior Central Intelligence Agency employees were housed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The photographer died of a brain haemorrhage, in Hong Kong where he had lived for the past 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>He worked as chief photographer for the <em>South China Morning Post<\/em> before joining the news agencies, Associated Press and United Press International.<\/p>\n<p>To read the photographer&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em> article, and to view the famous picture, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/04\/29\/opinion\/29van_es.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\" title=\"New York Times\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OTHER RECENT ARTICLES ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHERS:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/news\/Photographer_releases_machete_attack_pictures_update_news_282598.html\" title=\"Pictures: Photographer 'attacked' with machetes\">Pictures: Photographer &#8216;attacked&#8217; with machetes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/news\/Photographers_scubadiving_murder_picture_back_in_the_news_news_282568.html\" title=\"Murder photo back in the news\">&#8216;Murder&#8217; photo back in the news<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/news\/Photographer_Capas_lost_images_revealed_online_news_282455.html\" title=\"Lost Capa images revealed in online gallery\">Lost Capa images revealed in online gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/news\/photographers_face_wider_anti_terror_curbs_news_281398.html\" title=\"Photographers face wider anti-terror curbs\">Photographers face wider anti-terror curbs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Hubert Van Es, who will be remembered for one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War, has died aged 67.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-23837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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