Even during a war that produced some of the most iconic moments in photojournalism, Henri Huet’s images of Vietnam distinguish themselves as particularly artistic and moving. Unlike most war photographers, Huet was a native of the land he was photographing, the son of a French engineer and Vietnamese mother. Shooting for the Associated Press, he captured an image of a badly wounded American medic continuing to tend to other injured soldiers that landed on the cover of Life magazine and won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal. Like Capa, the famed chronicler of battle, Huet died in the line of duty: he was shot down over Laos in 1971, at the age of 43. His artwork is featured in a show on view through April 3 at Paris’s Maison EuropÈenne de la Photographie. Read NEWSWEEK's ‘The Best Photographer of the Vietnam War’
