When Nick Ut noted the time when the small Phúc Kim fled the rain of napalm, other photographers and cameramen have set in place the memory of terror. The original framework did not include all the elements present in this photograph.
Trail Trang Bang, photograph by Nick Ut, 06/08/1972 from left to right: Phan Thanh Tam (brother of Kim Phuc, 12 years), Phan Thanh Phuoc ( younger brother, 5 years), Phan Thị Kim Phúc (9 years), Bo Van Ho and Ho Thi Ting (cousin of Kim)
The iconic photograph (Nick Ut) was published four days later in The New York Times, which were exceeded some troubles between a reporter and editor Associated Press, because of the controversy raised by the frontal nudity of the image.
Beyond Nick Ut, in service to the Associated Press, can be identified in photographs reporters David Burnett (Time Magazine), Christopher Wain (Independent Television News), Hoang Van Danh (freelancer, AP and United Press International), Alex Shimkin (freelancer Newsweek), Le Phuc Dinh (cameraman, NBC) and Alan Downes (Cameraman, ITN). One - the journalist Alex Shimkin - would die in an article in the province of Quang Tri (Vietnam), 34 days later with 27 years of age.
Some of the dramatic moments of the evacuation of Trang Bang were recorded by photojournalist Alan Downes, of Independent Television News, and the cameraman Le Phuc Dinh, NBC.
Alan Downes, ITN, 08.06.1972
Some extracts of the footage was included two years later in the film "Hearts and Minds, Peter Davis, winner in 1975 with the Hollywood Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Phan Thị Kim Phúc lives in Canada, where he requested political asylum in 1992. It is currently 47 years and, since 1997, Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO.
Kim Phúc with photographers David Burnett and Nick Ut photography Hyungwon Kang, Washington, 04.03.2009
Sources: here, here , here, here and here.
David Burnett, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 1946
Nick (Huynh Cong) Ut, Long An, Vietnam, 1951
Kim Phuc Phan Thi, Trang Bang, Vietname, 1963
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