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Hardcover: 178 pages
Publisher: Trolley (1 Nov 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1904563058
ISBN-13: 978-1904563051
Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 22.4 x 2.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Philip Jones Griffiths, for five years President of "Magnum Photos", created in "Vietnam, Inc" a record of the war there of almost Biblical proportions. No one who has seen it will forget its haunting images. In "Agent Orange" he has added a postscript that is equally unforgettable. In 1960 the United States war machine concluded that an efficient deterrent to the Viet Cong would be the devastation of the crops and forestry that afforded them both succour and cover for their operations. Initial descriptions of the scheme included "Food Denial Program", later adapted to "depriving cover for enemy troops". They gave the idea the name "Operation Hades", but were advised that "Operation Ranch Hand" was a more suitable cognomen for PR purposes. The US had developed a herbicide for the task. It became known as Agent Orange after the colour of the canisters used to distribute it. The planes that carried the canisters had "only we can prevent forests!" as a logo on their fuselages. They were right. It was very effective. Unfortunately some herbicide also contained Dioxin, probably one of the world's deadliest poisons.

In "Agent Orange" Philip Jones Griffiths has photographed the children and grandchildren of the farmers whose faces were lifted to the gentle rain of the contaminated herbicide. Theoretically and scientifically there are no proven connections between the maimed subjects of Griffiths' photographs and the presence of Dioxin in Agent Orange. There are certainly suspicions, sustained by the compensation payments made by the US Government to its war victims.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Toxic revelation, 28 Feb 2004

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Philip Jones Griffiths has lived his entire life with an awareness of disease. Born and brought up in Rhuddlan, Wales, where his mother was the district nurse, he explained in an interview for the Royal Photographic Society Journal that one of the barometers determining middle class status in his village was an absence of Tuberculosis. Prior to picking up the camera professionally he trained and worked as a pharmacist, giving it up in 1961 when he was offered a contract to photograph for The Observer. He arrived in Vietnam in the summer of 1966: determined to cover the story in much greater depth than had been possible on his previous assignments. Agent Orange, published 37 years after he first set foot in Vietnam, is a testament of his fidelity to that original sentiment. Vietnam Inc, his original response to the conflict, republished last year by Phaidon and long considered the finest piece of reporting to have come out of Vietnam, is credited with beginning the change of public opinion in the USA that eventually brought the war to an end.

Agent Orange was one of a number of herbicides tested by US forces in Vietnam: its purpose being to deny food and shelter to the Viet Cong by de-foliating vast areas of the country’s landscape. The Vietnam PR machine made much at the time of the product’s alleged safety. But an accidental by-product constituent of the herbicide was the highly toxic chemical Dioxin which has caused disease in adults, and deformity in the children both of those on the ground beneath the herbicide mist, and those who administered it from above. Jones-Griffiths, who has continued to visit Vietnam on numerous occasions since the American withdrawal, points out that millions were effected by the toxic chemicals. More darkly he evidences that the manufacturers of the chemicals were aware, at the time of its manufacture, of the toxicity of their products: it was however to be dropped on “the enemy” and therefore considered of little consequence. The fall-out contamination amongst US veterans had not been predicted and in the United States has lead to a compensation programme for those who have since developed a number of diseases. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Vietnamese, have in the main been left to their own devices.

Jones-Griffiths however, past President of Magnum and long time campaigner for the people of South East Asia, remains determined that the truth will be seen to out. Evidencing, as it does in unsparing detail, the aftermath of spraying a populated, agricultural landscape with dioxin contaminated compounds, this is a far from easy book to look at. But at a time when the issue of weapons of mass destruction so regularly graces the front pages of the Western media it is perhaps even more crucial that it be examined.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Agent Orange ..... Phillip Jones Griffiths, 27 April 2009

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Once again Phillip Jones Griffiths stops you in your tracks with haunting and thought provoking images that strike at your heart and mind. The finest war/reportage photographer of his time, possibly all time. A very powerful book that drives home the horror and often pointlessness of war and its effect on innocent civilians.

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