Editing Larry Burrows (section)

== Early career ==
Burrows began his career in the art department of the [[Daily Express]] newspaper in 1942 in London. He learned [[photography]] and moved to work in the [[darkroom]]s of the Keystone photography agency and [[Life (magazine)|Life Magazine]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/larry-burrows|title=Larry Burrows|date=2016-03-03|website=International Center of Photography|language=en|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref> It was here that Burrows started to be called Larry to avoid confusion with another Henry working in the same office.<ref name=":1">{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/4918753/larry-burrows-vietnam-war-tron-life/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913043021/http://time.com/4918753/larry-burrows-vietnam-war-tron-life/|url-status=live|archive-date=September 13, 2017|title=This Girl Tròn: A Friendship Born of the Vietnam War|last=Đá|first=Gary Jones/ Suối|magazine=Time|language=en-us|access-date=2019-06-01}}</ref> It was not unknown for him to redo a whole day of work in order to secure the best result.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|title=The great Life photographers|last=the editors of Life ; introduction by John Loengard ; a reminiscence by Gordon Parks|date=2009|publisher=Thames & Hudson|isbn=9780500288368|location=London|oclc=503662130}}</ref>

Some accounts blame Burrows for melting photographer [[Robert Capa]]'s [[The Magnificent Eleven|D-Day negatives]] in the drying cabinet,<ref>[http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2006/10/fsc05.html Flying Short Course: Evolving Newspapers Pushing Photojournalists For Video<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080122010313/http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2006/10/fsc05.html |date=2008-01-22 }}</ref> but in fact it was another technician, according to [[John G. Morris]].<ref>Morris blames it on a young developer named Dennis Banks. John G. Morris, "Get the picture, A personal history of photojournalism", Random House Inc, N-Y 1998</ref>