Photographer Tim Page dies at 78
His death was confirmed by his longtime partner, Marianne Harris, according to The New York Times. Page was one of the most vivid personalities among a corps of Vietnam photographers whose images helped shape the course of the war. Timothy John Page was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in the UK on May 25, 1944. He was the son of a British sailor who was killed in World War II. He was adopted and never knew his birth mother. At 17, he left England in search of adventure, leaving behind a note that read: “Dear Parents, am leaving home for Europe or perhaps Navy and hence the world. Do not know how long I shall go for.” He went well beyond Europe, travel ing to the Middle East, India, and Nepal, before ending his journey in Laos at the beginning of the Indochina war. He found freelance work with United Press International and won a job thanks to photographs he had taken of an attempted coup in Laos in 1965. He spent most of the next five years covering the war in V...