Overlook Gallery
Ironworld's Overlook Gallery is a 3,000 square-foot space on two levels dedicated to hosting traveling exhibitions year-round.Overlook Gallery Schedule
January 26 through April 20, 2008, Ironworld presents moving and powerful images of the Vietnam War in a memorial titled Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina.
This exhibit features 290 images taken by photojournalists who were killed or reported missing while covering the conflict.
Requiem encompasses images taken by men and women on both sides who gave their lives while on the job during the conflict, which began with the French Indochina War of the 1950s, and culminated with the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975.
The photographs were among the thousands gathered by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Horst Faas, and freelance photographer Tim Page. The men, who were both wounded in Vietnam, decided that the works of famous photojournalists like Robert Capa and Larry Burrows would hang alongside those of unknown photographers who contributed significant pictures before dying.
Ironworld, the largest museum complex in the region, brings this exhibit to northeastern Minnesota as a way of honoring veterans and their families.
Through engaging programming -- including lectures, panel discussions and films -- we hope to provide a forum for understanding not only how Vietnam shaped a generation, but how that experience and the wars that followed continue to impact our lives.
Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina, is traveling under the auspices of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.