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Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vietnam. Show all posts

Photo of the Day 448


Worshipers in Temple, Tay Ninh, Vietnam, 1961

Photograph by W.E. Garrett

Massed at midnight amid dragon pillars and beneath the Eye of God, praying Caodaists at Tay Ninh, Vietnam, mark the Day of the Creator.

(Photo shot on assignment for "South Viet Nam Fights the Red Tide," October 1961, National Geographic magazine)

Photo of the Day 390


Morning Mist, Hue, Vietnam, 1967

Photograph by Winfield Parks

A boy rides one of three water buffalo grazing in a misty field near the South Vietnam town of Hue. This tranquil scene, photographed in 1966, belies the ongoing regional chaos at the height of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Behind the Headlines in Vietnam," February 1967, National Geographic magazine)