The Tim Page (born May 25, 1944) is a British photographer who made his name during the Vietnam War and is now based in Brisbane, Australia.
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Biography
Page was born on May 25, 1944 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He left England in 1962 making his way overland through Europe, Pakistan, India, Burma, Thailand and Laos. Without money in Laos, he found a job as an agricultural advisor to USAID. He started working as a press photographer in Laos assembling for UPI and AFP, after studying his own photography. His exclusive photographs of a coup attempt in Laos in 1965 for UPI gave him staff positions at the agency's Saigon bureau. He was celebrated for his work as an overseas-recognized press photographer in Vietnam and Cambodia during the 1960s, also looking for time to cover the Six Day War in the Middle East in 1967. Due to his near-death experience in the early 60s, he came to see his life as 'free time'. This makes it take photos in dangerous situations where other journalists will not explore. Likewise, Page is captivated by the excitement and charm of warfare, which helps contribute to the style of photo he admired.
In late 1965 Page shared a home in 47 Bui Thi Xuan, Saigon with Leonardo Caparros and fellow reporters Simon Dring, Martin Stuart-Fox and Steve Northup, known as "Frankie House" after Vietnamese housekeepers. Frankie's House became a social club for group correspondents between field assignments and their friends with the large number of drugs used there. Page himself did not shy away from the drug culture he involves in Vietnam, devoting much of his book Page afterwards . In Dispatches, Michael Herr writes about the most 'extraordinary' Page from the crazy madmen running around Vietnam ', for in many ways the amount of medicine he enjoys. His unusual personality is part of the inspiration for the character of the reporter played by Dennis Hopper at Apocalypse Now.
Page was injured in action four times. The first, in 1965, was in Chu Lai where he was attacked by shrapnel in his legs and stomach; the second was in Da Nang during the Buddhist riots (1966), where he received more shrapnel wounds in his head, back, and arms; the third in August 1966 took place in the South China Sea, where he was on the Coast Guard Point Welcome board, when it was misinterpreted as a Viet Cong vessel, and a US Air Force pilot fired on the ship, leaving the yard floating in the sea with over two hundred injuries. Lastly, in April 1969, Page jumped out of the helicopter to help load the wounded soldiers. At the same time, a sergeant stepped on a nearby mine, sending a 2-inch fraction to Page's head. The list of injuries made his teammates on the field joking that he would never reach the age of 23 years. He spent the following year in the United States undergoing extensive neuro surgery. During his recovery he became deeply involved with the Vietnam Veteran peace movement and worked as a caregiver to the amputees, who were traumatically shocked and stressed the youth. One of them is Ron Kovic.
On December 9, 1967, Page was arrested in New Haven, Connecticut along with fellow journalist Mike Zwerin and Yvonne Chabrier at the famous Doors concert in which Jim Morrison was captured on stage. The charges against the four were dropped for lack of evidence.
In the 1970's Pages worked as freelance photographers for music magazines such as Crawdaddy and Rolling Stone. During his recovery in the spring of 1970 he learned about the arrest of his best friend, roommate and fellow photojournalist Sean Flynn in Cambodia. Throughout the 1970s and 80s he tried to discover the fate of Flynn and his final resting place and wanted to establish a memorial for everyone in the media that either was killed or lost in the war. This led him to discover the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation and became the source for the book Requiem, edited with fellow Horst Faas Vietnam War photographer. The search page to clarify the mystery of Flynn's fate continues; until the end of 2009 he returned to Cambodia, still looking for Flynn's residence.
The Requiem page book contains photographs taken by all the photographers and journalists killed during the Vietnam war against Japan, France and America. Requiem has been in the early 2000s a mobile photography exhibition housed under the supervision of George Eastman House International Photography and Film Museum. The exhibition has been presented at the Vietnam War Time Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, as well as in New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Hanoi, Lausanne and London. In 2011, it was chosen to be the main exhibition of Photographic Month Asia in Singapore.
The page is the subject of many documentaries and two films, and is the author of many books. He lives in Brisbane, Australia and no longer covers war. He is an Associate Professor of Journalism Photos at Griffith University.
"I'm dead I'm alive I've seen the tunnel, it's black There's nothing, in the end there's no light There's no life after death There's no religion whatsoever, and it does not look scary. is a long, flowing, unfading wave The mystery is partially resolved, all the scary church propaganda takes on the real, embarrassing I am content I am alive I am not dead, and it seems very clear, very free. is the dawn, the inauguration to lose the responsible part of my soul.Evangement takes place at the intersection.Anything from here will be a spare time, a gift from the gods " (about the proximity of Experience -after after a motorcycle accident in 1960)
In the 2010-2011 floods in Queensland, Page's archives in its basement were damaged, highlighting the need for long-term homes for what he estimates to amount to three-quarters of a million images accumulated during his 45-year career.
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Selected book
- Nam Tim Page (1983)
- Sri Lanka (1984)
- Ten Years After: Vietnam Today (1987)
- Page by Page: Memoirs of a Disrupted War Photographer (1988)
- Failed at Uncle Ho's Victory Park (1995)
- Medium Term Report (1995)
- Requiem (1997)
- Important Moments (2001)
- other Vietnamese (2002)
Selected movie about Page
- Dangers at the Edge of the City (1991) - a movie about Pages searching to discover the fate of his friends Sean Flynn and Dana Stone who disappeared in Cambodia in 1970
- Frankie's house - British/Australian miniseries 1992, played by Iain Glen
- Vietnamese magical war (Images from Other Side)
References
External links
- Official website
- Lightstalkers biography of Team Pages on the Wayback Machine (archived August 29, 2013)
- Alison Beck, Meeting Page, digitaljournalist.org. Retrieved on October 22, 2016.
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