Known as a daring war photographer, French-born photojournalist Catherine Leroy died of cancer at the age of 60 in California. Leroy worked for LIFE magazine, the Gamma and Sipa agencies, and the AP and UPI. Her famous photo "Corpsman In Anguish" was taken in 1967 while documenting the Vietnam War.
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You can find a more personal tribute to Catherine Leroy at www.hotelchelseablog.com. Catherine was a resident of the hotel in the 1980s.
Comment by AHCB — July 12, 2006 @ 9:41 am
A picture print of the “Corpsman in Anguish” should be direct mailed, at the expense of the US government, so it may be hung on the living room wall of every home in America Then, every time the subject of war or “kicking some other country’s butt” comes up, every mother and father should reflect for a moment about the dead marine who could have been or may come to be their son and they should stand up and defy the government that chooses to solve the worlds problems with war and death by turning their children into cannon fodder!.
“What if they gave a war and nobody came?”
Comment by Paul Eberth — August 4, 2006 @ 2:17 pm