Excerpt from the 1966 Dateline for The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1965:
ROBERT CAPA AWARD FOR SUPERLATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY, STILL OR MOTION, REQUIRING EXCEPTIONAL COURAGE AND ENTERPRISE ABROAD….
LARRY BURROWS
Larry Burrows of Life magazine has been selected for the Capa Award for the second time, a testimony to his courage and ability. “With a Brave Crew in a Deadly Flight” appeared in the April 16, 1965, issue of Life. “His photographs taken, on board a helicopter over Vietnam, are excellent,” the judges said, “his followup of the story on the ground is skillful and journalistically superior and his exceptional courage is amply evident.”
Burrows, an Englishman, worked for Keystone Photo Agency and the London Daily Express before he joined Life in 1961.
He has covered violence in Cyprus, the Congo, China-India and elsewhere. A Life teammate once said “Larry is either the bravest man I ever knew—or the most nearsighted.”