woensdag, november 12, 2003
Victoria Dickins Burrows Spencer, a survivor of the notorious Lunghwa prison camp in Shanghai and widow of famed photojournalist Larry Burrows, died in Boston on Nov. 5 after a lengthy illness, according to her son. She was 79.
Her husband, a star of the acclaimed Life magazine photography staff in the 1950s and 1960s, was killed in 1971 while covering the Vietnam war, the subject for which he was best known.
Mrs. Burrows was born to British parents in China, where her father was a maritime customs official. The family was among foreigners seized by Japanese invaders in Shanghai on Dec. 8, 1941 and spent the war years in the internment camp, later made famous by the book and film, "Empire of the Sun."
In 1947, while working for Life magazine's travel department, she met and married British-born Larry Burrows, then a new photographer for the magazine. They lived in London, then Hong Kong, as Burrows traveled the world on news assignments.
She was at home in Hong Kong on Feb. 10, 1971 when a South Vietnamese helicopter carrying 11 people, including Burrows and three other photographers, was shot down over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in southern Laos, killing all aboard. The jungle crash site was located in 1996 and excavated in 1998. No identifiable remains were recovered but among items found was a Leica camera believed to have been Burrows's.
Bron: Associated Press.
Her husband, a star of the acclaimed Life magazine photography staff in the 1950s and 1960s, was killed in 1971 while covering the Vietnam war, the subject for which he was best known.
Mrs. Burrows was born to British parents in China, where her father was a maritime customs official. The family was among foreigners seized by Japanese invaders in Shanghai on Dec. 8, 1941 and spent the war years in the internment camp, later made famous by the book and film, "Empire of the Sun."
In 1947, while working for Life magazine's travel department, she met and married British-born Larry Burrows, then a new photographer for the magazine. They lived in London, then Hong Kong, as Burrows traveled the world on news assignments.
She was at home in Hong Kong on Feb. 10, 1971 when a South Vietnamese helicopter carrying 11 people, including Burrows and three other photographers, was shot down over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in southern Laos, killing all aboard. The jungle crash site was located in 1996 and excavated in 1998. No identifiable remains were recovered but among items found was a Leica camera believed to have been Burrows's.
Bron: Associated Press.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 01:00
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