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Finding Aid to Vietnam: Journey of the Heart
1985-2000
BANC PIC 2007.056--fffALB
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Collection Title: Vietnam: Journey of the heart
Date (inclusive): 1985-2000
Collection Number: BANC PIC 2007.056--fffALB
Photographer:
Clifford, Geoffrey
Collaborator:
Balaban, John, 1943-
Sponsor:
Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service.
Physical Description:
52 photographic prints : color ; 24 x 36 in.
52 digital objects
Repository:
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Abstract: Fifty-two color photographs by Geoffrey Clifford depicting the people, culture and urban and rural landscapes of Vietnam between
1985 and 2000. These photographic prints constituted an exhibition organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service (SITES).
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in
English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
ORIGINALS RESTRICTED due to SPECIAL HANDLING NEEDS: Use only by permission of the appropriate curator.
Copyright held by Geoffrey Clifford. All requests for high resolution reproductions should be referred to the photographer:
Geoffrey Clifford.
[Identification of item], Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, BANC PIC 2007.056--fffALB, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Digital reproductions of all images are available.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Vietnam. Pictorial works.
Vietnam--Social life and customs. Pictorial works
Photographs
Photographic collection originally donated to the South/Southeast Asia Library, and transferred to The Bancroft Library.
No additions are expected.
Processed by Bancroft Library staff.
Geoffrey Clifford's photographic work has earned him international acclaim. His award-winning photographs have appeared in
a number of books, magazines, and other publications worldwide. Monographs of his work include Vietnam: The Land We Never
Knew (Chronicle Books, 1989) and The Last Days, still photography taken during the filming of James Moll's Academy Award-winning
documentary, produced by Steven Spielberg (St. Martin's Press, 1999.)
Clifford served as an army lieutenant during the Vietnam War. In Vietnam he flew helicopter combat and supply missions out
of Chu Lai and Da Nang. After his return to the United States, he studied photography and film making, earning a degree in
motion picture production at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.
In 1985, Clifford was included in one of the first groups of U.S. Veterans to visit postwar Vietnam, becoming one of the first
Americans to photograph there since the War. Since 1985, Clifford has returned to Vietnam nearly twenty times. He is one of
the first foreigners to have traveled the entire length of Vietnam, from the Chinese border in the north to the southern swamps
of the Ca Mau Peninsula.
In 1989, Chronicle Books published Clifford's work, Vietnam: The Land We Never Knew, with a preface by Clifford and text by
author John Balaban. In 1998, U.S. Congressmen Tom Lantos and Eni Faleomavaega sponsored an exhibition of Geoffrey Clifford's
Vietnam photographs in the Cannon Rotunda on Capitol Hill.
Scope and Content of Collection
Fifty-two large format color photographs by Geoffrey Clifford depicting the people, culture and urban and rural landscapes
of Vietnam between 1985 and 2000. These photographic prints constituted an exhibition organized for travel by the Smithsonian
Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). They were shown in multiple American venues between 2001 and 2006, accompanied
by text authored by collaborator John Balaban. Much of Balaban's descriptive text has been reproduced in this finding aid.