R.I.P. Tim Page, 78, photographer and war correspondent
R.I.P. Tim Page, 78, photographer and war correspondent
Photographer and war correspondent Tim Page, 78, has passed away in Australia. He made a name for himself by covering the Vietnam war.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Page_(photographer)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Page_(photographer)
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Upon hearing the news I said I was privileged to have crossed the faintest of paths with Tim Page. Many were his friends. I was merely on the outskirts (as I am in most social groups).
The fullest of lives. Unique. An absolute bloomin’ legend.
As well as the loss of Tim, it feels like another piece of Expat history in Cambodia fading into the shadows.
Sad.
The fullest of lives. Unique. An absolute bloomin’ legend.
As well as the loss of Tim, it feels like another piece of Expat history in Cambodia fading into the shadows.
Sad.
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That's a shame. Had quite a few of his books and met him a few times, quite a crazy bastard. RIP
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
RIP.
Rumor has it he didn't like the association with Dennis Hopper. And from what I saw, he was quite relaxed and balanced in his outward posture. Not wacky, more intellectual and experimental in nature.
Rumor has it he didn't like the association with Dennis Hopper. And from what I saw, he was quite relaxed and balanced in his outward posture. Not wacky, more intellectual and experimental in nature.
Sad news, RIP.
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I wouldn't know what he was like in his early days but he didn't seem much like the crazed photographer Hopper played in Apocalypse Now.notagain wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:42 pmRIP.
Rumor has it he didn't like the association with Dennis Hopper. And from what I saw, he was quite relaxed and balanced in his outward posture. Not wacky, more intellectual and experimental in nature.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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750000 photographs I wonder how much that film cost to buy and to develop.
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Thanks for the photos, RIP
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Something to read for those who didn't know Tim.
Article from Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... page-dies/
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his own concert story: http://www.timpage.com.au/blog/2014/8/2 ... 0ZTIlWitl4
Article from Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... page-dies/
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his own concert story: http://www.timpage.com.au/blog/2014/8/2 ... 0ZTIlWitl4
Pardon my engrish, thanks you.
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In the 60's/70's TriX was around $1.50/36> nobody paid to have it developed it, u did that yourselfFrycek Edzio wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 9:22 pm750000 photographs I wonder how much that film cost to buy and to develop.
Kodachrome 64 was around $4.50-6 which included developing< closest to get that done from thailand/Laos/Vietnam was HK)
Ektachrome was $2.50 or so an you could develop yourself
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He was always one of my heroes. Called my son Sean after Flynn. Loved the spirit of these guys. Met him a few times in Phnom Penh. About 2007 hired Sok the taxi driver from City Of Ghosts and followed in the footsteps of Flynn as per the Uncle His victory Garden book. Went down Highway One and then headed north to Kimono Cham, found a tiny village in the rubber plantation where an old lady said she supplied Flynn,the tall one with ganga.One day she came home and he and his friend were gone.Murdered by he KR.
Turns out it wasn't Flynn but one of the ship hijackers. Then the pommie bar owner later dug around there with the back hoe looking for bones and teeth.
Page certainly lived the life.
Turns out it wasn't Flynn but one of the ship hijackers. Then the pommie bar owner later dug around there with the back hoe looking for bones and teeth.
Page certainly lived the life.
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Going back on that I found this great interview with Tim Page from 2007 today:Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:56 pmI wouldn't know what he was like in his early days but he didn't seem much like the crazed photographer Hopper played in Apocalypse Now.notagain wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:42 pmRIP.
Rumor has it he didn't like the association with Dennis Hopper. And from what I saw, he was quite relaxed and balanced in his outward posture. Not wacky, more intellectual and experimental in nature.
Original article by veteran journalist Charles McDermid that has loads of crazy stuff about smuggling and hanging out with The Clash etc:What was it like going on assignment with Hunter S. Thompson?
I worked with Hunter twice. He bottled out before the end of Saigon. I was working with him for Rolling Stone and I was supposed to be with him right at the end. But he left two or three days before and told the publisher I was crazy. The hard core stayed on, but the drugs didn't carry him through.
Apocalypse Now: was Dennis Hopper playing you?
When Hopper comes on he's playing me -it's a character that's based on me and [Sean] Flynn and others from the "Colleagues" chapter in Dispatches. He's also playing himself. He's a rebel in his own right and a genius; I've met him a couple of times. In the film he's got malaria, and he's taking this and taking that...well, I shouldn't chastise him for consumption. Hopper turned up in the Philippines on vacation and Coppola had just got the first proof of the film and he needed a bridge. He used the media as the bridge to bring the two parts of the story together.
The myth [that the Hopper character is Page] took off after a producer's screening by Fishermen's Wharf [San Francisco] in 1979. I was sitting with Coppola, [George] Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Michael Herr. When Hopper came on it was pure acid, pure unrehearsed gonzo. Herr elbows me and says, "Hey, you finally made it to the silver screen."
That's how it started. Herr later went to England and worked for [Stanley] Kubrick. He says his biggest crime was writing "Full Metal Jacket." Now he runs
a Buddhist retreat in upstate New York.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... vxZz0h0T4Q
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Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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