1. Henry Frank Leslie Burrows, known as Larry Burrows, was an English photojournalist.
12 Facts About Larry Burrows
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Larry Burrows learned photography and moved to work in the darkrooms of the Keystone photography agency and Life Magazine.
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Larry Burrows had an early success with his coverage of the demolition of the Heligoland U-Boat Pens in 1947.
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However, Larry Burrows persuaded the pilot to fly over at only 500 feet, knocking out the window perspex when it obscured his shot.
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Larry Burrows would go on to cover stories in Suez, Lebanon, Cyprus, Central Africa, and Vietnam.
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Larry Burrows was described in The Times as an "equipment man" and quoted as saying, "When I take the lot with me there are twenty-six cases".
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In early 1971, Larry Burrows was elected a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
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Larry Burrows went on to become a photographer and covered the war in Vietnam from 1962 until his death in 1971.
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Larry Burrows died on 10 February 1971 with fellow photojournalists Henri Huet, Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto, when their helicopter was shot down over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos as the group covered Operation Lam Son 719.
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Larry Burrows was a truly beautiful man, modest, graceful, a star who never behaved like one.
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Larry Burrows was generous to all, a man who gave lessons to his colleagues not just on how to take photographs but, more important, on how to behave like a human being, how to be both colleague and mentor.
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In 2021, Larry Burrows was posthumously inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.