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Catherine Leroy (August 27, 1944 - July 8, 2006) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications.
28 de mar. de 2017 · MARCH 28, 2017. Very few women went to Vietnam as journalists, and even fewer as dedicated war photojournalists. In fact, for most of the 1960s, there were only two: Dickie Chapelle, who was killed...
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Home. HER WORK. PHOTOGRAPHS. Photographs. Vietnam 1966/68. Following the death of American photographer Dickey Chapelle killed during a patrol in November 1965, Catherine Leroy was the only woman photographer to cover the conflict in Vietnam as a war correspondent between 1966 and 1968.
ABOUT CATHERINE LEROY. IN HER OWN WORDS. LETTERS FROM VIETNAM. THE FILM: “CATHY AT WAR” HER WORK. PHOTOGRAPHS. VIETNAM WAR 1966/68. BATTLE OF HUE 1968. WOODSTOCK 1969. FALL OF SAIGON 1975. LEBANON CIVIL WAR 1975/82. THE TROUBLES, BELFAST 1979. ONE VIETNAM AT PEACE 1980. PUBLICATIONS. PRESS. CATALOGS / COMPILATIONS. BOOKS. ‘OPERATION LAST PATROL’.
27 de sept. de 2017 · While covering the Vietnam War, Catherine Leroy wrote over 100 letters home, detailing her professional and personal experiences as the only female photojournalist in Vietnam at the time.
Her life. A daring pioneer. At a time when women’s liberation movements were still emerging, Catherine Leroy, a small woman — barely 40kgs/85lbs. at 1.50m/4’10” — born into a conservative Catholic bourgeois milieu, broke through many professional barriers. She was the only non-military photographer and only woman to make a parachute ...
28 de mar. de 2021 · Vietnam’s most daring photographer. Leroy preparing for her combat jump. Catherine Leroy became the first and only woman photographer to parachute into combat in Vietnam. Some accused her of sleeping with a ranking officer to get permission and that was not the case. She had already completed 84 parachute jumps as a teenager.
