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Piloten im Pyjama - Thomas Billhardt's first trip to Vietnam 1967

Topic: Travels
Periods:
  • 1967
Artists:
  • Thomas Billhardt
The Photographer Thomas Billhardt went to twelve trips to Vietnam between 1967 and 1975.
Interview with Thomas Billhardt at the Kleinmachnower Heimatverein on 13.05.2022

In 1967 the photographer Thomas Billhardt (b. 1937) accompanied a film crew interviewing U.S. pilots who had fallen in Vietnamese captivity. His assignment was to photograph the filming of the four-part documentary Piloten im Pyjama by Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann. Between 1967 and 1975 Billhardt traveled to Vietnam twelve times and documented the events of the war. His photographs gained international attention.

Thomas Billhardt, Piloten im Pyjama, 1967, photographs taken during the filming of the documentary Piloten im Pyjama. Courtesy of the photographer Thomas Billhardt

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