Documentary Quote by Ron Livingston

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what…

— James Nachtwey

So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it’s…

— Martha Rosler

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

— Cornell Capa

Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of…

— Jamel Shabazz

We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I thin it…

— Anne Waldman

“I keep thinking about all the kids who got wiped out by seventeen years of war movies before coming to Vietnam to get wiped…

— Michael Herr

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was,…

— Morley Safer

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

— Robert Jay Lifton

I've always been interested in Vietnam, feel it's a seminal event in our nation's history, and have explored it over the years - but…

— Rory Kennedy

In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined film footage,…

— Hiromu Arakawa

World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're given kind…

— Ken Burns

I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the…

— Jamel Shabazz