Avery, Paul (photographer) (1934-2000) — Vietnamization. [Poster]

San Francisco: Paul Avery, 1970. Original poster. East Wind ~ printer | ~ Paul Avery photographer 1970 Poster has a black and white photograph in the center of a young boy with a bloody face and a blood stained shirt. Next to him is a woman with a bloody face with cuts. Avery joined the San Francisco Chronicle in 1959. In the 2nd half of the 1960s, Avery took a leave of absence from the Chronicle and moved his family to Vietnam. In Saigon, Avery co-founded Empire News, a freelance photojournalism organization. He expanded Empire News, opening a branch in Hong Kong, before returning to San Francisco, in 1969 after 3 years in Asia. In the mid-1980s, after working for The Sacramento Bee and writing a book about the Hearst kidnapping, he signed up with the then- Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner, where he stayed until his retirement in August 1994. .