Post by highbrow on May 28, 2008 17:12:35 GMT -8
My father is a very good personal friend with Al Rockoff who is a photo journalist from the Veitnam War era, he is most famous for his portayal in the film The Killing Fields. His work rarely is available for sale however he is currently looking to expand his work into collectors homes. All images are authentic and signed by Al Rockkoff. He is working on a book about the Killiing Fields of Cambodia and is going to start gallery shows in the next year.
Images are dry mounted and ready for framing. Price range is approx. 300 dollars per image and larger photos are 425
please email for images I have 8 current ones available.
History:
Rockoff is an American photojournalist made famous by his coverage of the Vietnam War and of the Khmer Rouges' takeover of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. He was also portrayed in the Academy Award winning film The Killing Fields, although he has never been happy with his portrayal.
Rockoff was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and had a mixed Polish-Jewish and Irish ancestry. After enlisting in the Navy while underage, he subsequently became an Army photographer in South Vietnam.
After several years in Vietnam, Rockoff came to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh in the spring of 1973, when the US-backed government of Lon Nol was fighting the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge insurgents. Both houses of Congress had voted to end USAF bombing missions over Cambodia that summer, and many journalists expected that the fall of Phnom Penh was imminent.
Rockoff was known to take tremendous risks to get his pictures at a time when any foreign journalist falling into Khmer Rouge hands could expect execution. In October 1974, he was badly wounded by shrapnel in an attack near the strategic city of Kompong Chnang, and technically 'died' for several minutes before his heart was revived by a Swedish Red Cross team. In April 1975, Rockoff was one of five US newsmen to remain in Phnom Penh when the US embassy launched a helicopter evacuation of its staff. On the morning of Phnom Penh's fall, he was visiting the Preah Keth Melea hospital with New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg and Jon Swain of The Sunday Times when they were arrested by a furious company of teenage Khmer Rouge soldiers. Only the intervention of Schanberg's assistant Dith Pran saved their lives.
Images are dry mounted and ready for framing. Price range is approx. 300 dollars per image and larger photos are 425
please email for images I have 8 current ones available.
History:
Rockoff is an American photojournalist made famous by his coverage of the Vietnam War and of the Khmer Rouges' takeover of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. He was also portrayed in the Academy Award winning film The Killing Fields, although he has never been happy with his portrayal.
Rockoff was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and had a mixed Polish-Jewish and Irish ancestry. After enlisting in the Navy while underage, he subsequently became an Army photographer in South Vietnam.
After several years in Vietnam, Rockoff came to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh in the spring of 1973, when the US-backed government of Lon Nol was fighting the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge insurgents. Both houses of Congress had voted to end USAF bombing missions over Cambodia that summer, and many journalists expected that the fall of Phnom Penh was imminent.
Rockoff was known to take tremendous risks to get his pictures at a time when any foreign journalist falling into Khmer Rouge hands could expect execution. In October 1974, he was badly wounded by shrapnel in an attack near the strategic city of Kompong Chnang, and technically 'died' for several minutes before his heart was revived by a Swedish Red Cross team. In April 1975, Rockoff was one of five US newsmen to remain in Phnom Penh when the US embassy launched a helicopter evacuation of its staff. On the morning of Phnom Penh's fall, he was visiting the Preah Keth Melea hospital with New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg and Jon Swain of The Sunday Times when they were arrested by a furious company of teenage Khmer Rouge soldiers. Only the intervention of Schanberg's assistant Dith Pran saved their lives.
