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The front cover of the
photo book "Preservation
of
Time".
The
Southern liberation
army men and women happily meeting President
Ho Chi Minh
(1969).nbsp;
The Vietnamese army
men's tank breaking down the iron gate of the Independence Palace on
April 30, 1975, the last base of the Saigon puppet
regime.
Crossing Truong
Sonnbsp;
Range to fight for
nbsp;national salvation.nbsp;
Construction of the
Bac Hung Hai irrigation work.
Russian
cosmonaut
V. Gorbatko (left) and Vietnamese cosmonaut
Pham Tuan at the flight training centre - the Star City
(1980).
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On the occasion of Vietnam Pictorial's 50th founding anniversary
(October 15, 1954 -nbsp; 2004 ), the Editorial Board is publishing a
pictorial book titled "Preservation of Time". This is an anthology of
historic photos selected from tens of thousands of negative films shot by
several generations of Vietnam Pictorial reporters and journalists over
the past 50 years.
Since the birth of photography, it
immediately turned into a means of preserving human memories. Vietnam
Pictorial (VNP) has efficiently utilized this media for the past 50 years,
a period of cataclysmic changes in Vietnamese history.
The great
power of photography is its ability to truthfully record history. This is
the message of the pictorial book "Preservation of Time ", consisting of
four chapters and 240 pages. The photos in the book, published in Vietnam
Pictorial monthlies for the past 50 years, represent convincing
illustrations on a beautiful and bountiful country, a nation with an
age-old culture and a people - hard-working and intelligent, humane and
peace-cherishing - who have always placed their responsibility and love
for the Fatherland above all. They are people who have written chapters of
heroism in the fight for national defence and who are now doing their
utmost to build a country "more beautiful and more bountiful" as was the
dream of great President Ho Chi Minh.
Late
Secretary General Truong Chinh once stated: "Vietnam Pictorial is a
periodical, political and highly artistic as well." Art in general,
particularly photographic art, has its own movement. Photographers always
seek for a particular style of photography, reflective and deliberative of
time. It is in this realm that it carries in itself the secret of
creation, it clings to the past and leaves behind the photos that travel
along with time.
For the
past half a century, Vietnam Pictorial has been fulfilling its task of
presenting startling images of Vietnam to the world's people and
international friends.
nbsp;Story: Nguyen
Thanh
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* All dynasties in Vietnamese history
have left their glorious golden chapters. In the Ho Chi Minh era,
when the French colonialists schemed to throw its domination upon
our people, the whole planet came to know of the world-shaking Dien
Bien Phu Victory. Then when the war against the US imperialists for
national salvation led to the total collapse of the Saigon regime on
April 30, 1975, the world felt once again utterly astonished, with
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* Vietnam is endowed by nature with
majestic landscapes of scenic beauty. Ha Long Bay, with its
impressive island-mountains amidst the immense ocean; the alluring
grotto of Phong Nha, Da Lat with its romantic woods and
streamsnbsp; mingling together, Vung Tau and Nha Trang with their
sunny and windy beaches ..., not to mention the works created and
beautified by human handsnbsp; like Thang Long Citadel, the
imperial city of Hue, My Son Champa Towers, the ancient town of Hoi
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* Vietnamese culture is rich and
diverse, with distinctive national identity that has crystallized
from thousands of years of history. Each one of the 54 fraternal
ethnic groups that share the same roof on this soil contributes to
the common culture with their own cultural treasures, i.e. their
languages, their scripts, their costumes, their religious beliefs
... all these have integrated into a single culture, with unity in
diversity of the community of Vietnamese nationalities. Vietnamese
culture represents a vivid entity full of vitality that has
experienced long development, sustainable and strong, through all
the upheavals of time, and all the rises and falls through history,
and it constitutes an innate element of development, as a spiritual
foundation of society.nbsp;
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Chu Dong Tu Festival
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Hung Yen Province.
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nbsp;Mother's sun.
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Pianist Dang Thai Son performing
withnbsp;Hanoi Conservatoire's symphony
orchestra.
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* From an underdeveloped agricultural
economy, from the ruins and the bleeding wounds of the protracted
wars, the Vietnamese people have once again shown their energetic
personality and keen aspiration for survival via national
re-construction, particularly in the comprehensive socio-economic
renovation over the past years. If yesteryear Vietnam was the
epitome of the movement for national liberation, today President Ho
Chi Minh's Fatherland may be seen as an economic prototype for the
developing countries.nbsp;nbsp;
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Exploiting oil and gasnbsp;
at Bach Ho oil
fieldnbsp;(Vung Tau).
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Coffee trees develop fast
in
Vietnam's Central Highlands.
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Textile and garment sector has become
an economic
spearhead in thenbsp;renovation stage.
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From a country in shortage of food, Vietnam
became
one of the world's leading rice
exporters.
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