Legendary Vietnam War photographer, writer and counter-culture documenter Tim Page (pic) died on Wednesday at his Australian home. He was 78 years old.
The British-born, self-taught photographer died of liver cancer with friends at his bedside at his home at Fernmount in New South Wales.
Ben Bohane, an Australian friend and fellow photojournalist, described Page as one of the world’s great war photographers as well as a “real humanist”.
“He always said that it was more important to be a decent human being than a great photographer,” Bohane said.
“One of his famous lines was, ‘the only good war photograph is an anti-war photograph,’” Bohane added.
Page was wounded four times as a war reporter covering conflicts in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia during the 1960s and ’70s.
He was arrested along with Jim Morrison when the Doors frontman was famously dragged by police from a stage in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1967.
As well as the Indochina wars, Page also covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Solomon Islands, Israel, Bosnia and East Timor. — AP
