LWould one of the most iconic images in history have been taken by a different photographer than the one who has been credited with it for over fifty years? This is what a documentary screened on January 25 at the Sundance festival in the United States, entitled The Stringer. Director Bao Nguyen and photojournalist Garry Knight argue that Nick Ut, the Vietnamese-American photojournalist, was not the one who captured the famous photo of 9-year-old Kim Phuc fleeing with other children after a napalm attack during the Vietnam War, June 8, 1972, as reported by Télérama on Sunday January 26.
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��A documentary screened yesterday at the Sundance festival claims that the author of the famous photo “The Little Girl with Napalm” (1972) is not the photographer Nick Ut but a Vietnamese freelancer who received $20 from the agency AP for his silence. pic.twitter.com/Zi6QYRPNLg
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According to the directors of the documentary, the famous image was actually taken by a freelance photographer, a freelancer whose identity remained secret for more than fifty years. The investigation, which took place between Vietnam, France and the United States, indicates that the turning point in history took place behind the scenes of the dark room of the Associated Press agency in Saigon. “The editor Carl Robinson, when writing the caption and […] Read more
