DATE:  Feb. 20, 2003

CONTACT: Tina Luther, (210) 458-2257; tluther@utsa.edu

PHOTOJOURNALISTS WHO PERISHED DURING VIETNAM CONFLICT,
WORKS SUBJECT OF EXHIBIT AT ITC

(San Antonio)—The Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC) will host an exhibit, speaker series and concert honoring photojournalists who perished while covering the decades-long conflict that began with the French Indochina War and culminated with the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon. 

“Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina” was organized by Horst Faas and Tim Page in association with the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.  The traveling exhibit will be on display March 11 through May 25 as a memorial to the 135 photojournalists who died or were reported missing in action.

In conjunction with the exhibit, at 7:30 p.m. April 11, the UTSA Concert Choir will perform Maurice Duruflé’s “Requiem” while images from the display are projected on the ITC’s Dome screens.  Lucy Winters Durkin, lecturer in Art History at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, will choreograph the images, and John Silantien will conduct the choir.  The evening will open with the San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers performing selections from Mozart, Leonard Bernstein and Randall Thompson. General admission for the “Requiem/Images” concert is $18.75.

A three-part speaker series, “Vietnam/Lives Regained,” will be presented at 2 p.m. Sundays in the ITC Auditorium. Dates and topics are: March 23—“Army Medicine in Vietnam” with Tom O. McMasters, curator of the U.S. Army Medical Department Museum, Fort Sam Houston; April 6—“Saving Our Sanity: Fact and Fiction Behind the Photos” with Robert Flynn, professor emeritus at Trinity University and author of “A Personal War in Vietnam;” and May 4—“U.S. Air Force Pararescue Mission and Role in Vietnam” with Fernando Cortez, curator of the History and Traditions Museum, Lackland Air Force Base.

Admission to the exhibit or any of the speaker programs is included with the regular ITC ticket purchase: $5, adults; $2, children (3-12 years); $3, seniors (65 years or older); $3, military personnel with ID; and free, children 2 years and under.  For more information, call (210) 458-2330 or visit www.texancultures.utsa.edu.

One of three University of Texas at San Antonio campuses, the ITC is an educational center focusing on Texas history and cultures

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Editor’s Note: This exhibit includes material of graphic nature
that may not be appropriate for all audiences.

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