Face to Face

When not on the air broadcasting his "Good Morning Vietnam" radio program on Armed Forces Radio, Don Fox took to the wide boulevards of Saigon and the rustic, dusty streets of small villages photographing ordinary Vietnamese citizens whose eyes reveal the effects of war lurking at their very doorsteps. Although untrained in photography, he shot hundreds of 35mm slides. Returning to the states and wishing to put the war behind him, Fox stashed the slides in a cardboard shoebox where...
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When not on the air broadcasting his "Good Morning Vietnam" radio program on Armed Forces Radio, Don Fox took to the wide boulevards of Saigon and the rustic, dusty streets of small villages photographing ordinary Vietnamese citizens whose eyes reveal the effects of war lurking at their very doorsteps. Although untrained in photography, he shot hundreds of 35mm slides. Returning to the states and wishing to put the war behind him, Fox stashed the slides in a cardboard shoebox where they languished--unseen--in damp basements for decades. Finally after all those years of neglect, and despite the mold and mildew that devoured and distorted much of the delicate details of the images, Fox recognized their historical importance and emotional impact. He dedicated more than a year attempting to restore and remaster at least some of the photographs of these noncombatants--wizened men with wrinkled hands, elderly women with withered faces, young children with ancient eyes--caught in the crosshairs of history.