Rugged Routine
Photograph
Rugged Routine
War Without End?
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (15.9 × 24.1 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0413
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso TC: (S. Vietnam) 11/62 25) RUGGED ROUTINE: wading chin-deep through irrigation \ ditches is standard patrol procedure. This unit of the South \ Vietnam Airborne Paratroopers is trying to locate a reported \ Communist force near the village of Van Dinh. \ Credit: Dickey Chapelle c 1962 MAGNUM Photos
TextDickey Chapelle was an accomplished photojournalist and combat photographer. She became known for the lasting personal connections she made with her photographic subjects. Working with Father Augustine Nguyễn Lạc Hoá and his “Sea Swallow” troops, Chapelle made this image as Hoá fought the Viet Cong near the village of Binh Hung. Her relationship with the militia leader granted her unprecedented access to the frontlines of the Vietnam War. She continued to photograph that conflict until her death; she was the first American female reporter to be killed in action.
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
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