Artworks by Philip Jones Griffiths at Howard Greenberg Gallery on artnet

Philip Jones Griffiths

Bomb-laden planes are catapulted off the deck. Intended for emergency use in far-off confilcts, carriers are wasteful of men and machines, ca. 1971

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Boy Destroying Piano, Wales, 1961

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Soldier seen through shield, Northern Ireland, 1973

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1936: Born in Rhuddlan, Wales
1961: Became a full-time freelancer for the London-based Observer
1962: Covered the Algerian War and then moved to Central Africa
1966 - 1971: Moved to Asia, photographing in Vietnam
1971: Member of Magnum Photos
1973 - 1975: Covered the Yom Kippur War and then worked in Cambodia
1977: Covered Asia from his base in Thailand
1980: Moved to New York to assume the presidency of Magnum Photos, a post he held for a record five years
2008: Died at home in West London on 19th March

2008: Recollections - National Conservation Centre, Liverpool, UK
2007: Middle Years - Savignano Immagini Festival, Italy
: Middle Years - Trolley Gallery, London, UK
2006: Fifty Years on the Frontline - Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
2005: Fifty Years of Frontline - Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2004: Agent Orange - Side Photographic Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
1996: Dark Odyssey - National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK
1992: Retrospective – Madrid, Spain
1990: Retrospective - Photofest, Houston, TX
1985: Magnum Concert - Musee d’Art et Histoire, Fribourg, Switzerland

2005: Vietnam at Peace, Trolley, UK
2003: Agent Orange-Collateral Damage in Vietnam, Trolley, UK
1996: Dark Odyssey, Aperture, USA
1992: Philip Jones Griffiths: una vision retrospectiva (1952-1988), Consorcio para la Organizacion de Madrid Capital Europea de la Cultura, Spain
1979: Bangkok, Amsterdam Time-Life, the Netherlands
1971 - 2001: Vietnam Inc., Collier, USA; Phaidon, UK

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