Tim Page came so close to death so many times as a combat photographer that it is a minor miracle he survived his 20s. Instead, he died of combination of liver and lung cancer at his home in New South Wales at 78 years old.
Tim Page should have died by land mine, punji stick, gunshot or shark attack. He should have been felled by venereal disease, a drug overdose,
Top: Tim Page with his partner Marianne Harris at their home in Bellingen, New South Wales in June 2022. Below: Tim Page's last joint on Aug. 23, 2022.We were wrong. One of the last photos shot of him, published on a friend’s Facebook page on Aug. 23, the day before he passed away, showed this once powerful, ebullient man stretched out on a cot in his home. He was wearing a green T-shirt and looked wasted, though serene.
If Tim and his colleagues had covered the Iraq War, no one would have heard of them since they would have been incapable of making a name for themselves. Many journalists in Iraq didn’t even see dead bodies because everywhere they went was controlled – in effect censored for maximum propaganda value – by the American or British military.
Tim and the hundreds of print and TV journalists who covered the war can take some credit for LBJ’s decision to leave the White House. In the obituary he wrote about Tim in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian journalist Ben Bohane said that the photographer and his Vietnam War colleagues helped inspire Daniel Ellsberg to release the Pentagon Papers in 1971, which revealed that LBJ had “consistently lied” to Congress and the American public about the true extent of the U.S.
assignments in mind. I found his war photos exhilarating and disturbing, as if I had been thrust into a countrywide gore scene. He was not always weary. The reckless, passionate lifestyle of his early days as a war photographer are legendary and recorded in several books, including Michael Herr’sApocalypse Now,
Mr. Herr wrote about Tim putting on a Hendrix record and getting revved up by a, “long tense organic guitar line that made him shiver like frantic electric ecstasy was shooting up from the carpet through his spine straight to the old pleasure centre in his cream-cheese brain, shaking his head so his hair waved all around him.”, Tim reveals that he was both horrified and thrilled by war when asked by a publisher to produce a book that would remove all the glamour from it.
Tim Page was wounded while on board the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Point Welcome, which was mistakenly fired on by American planes off the coast of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, December 1966.Tim Page lies on a board with his head bandaged as he is loaded into an ambulance jeep in Da Nang, Vietnam, May 22, 1966, after he was hit by grenade fragments. Carrying him are Major Michael Styles of the U.S. Marines, left, and photographer Sean Flynn.
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