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The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phúc Story, the Photograph and the Vietnam War, by Denise Chong, is a 1999 biographical and historical book tracing the life story of Phúc. Chong's historical coverage emphasizes the life, especially the school and family life, of Phúc from before the attack, through convalescence, and into the present time.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut has spoken out against claims that his famous 1972 photo of a terrified child running from a napalm bomb attack on her village during the Vietnam War ...
“The Stringer” is a documentary mystery about a deadly serious subject: the true authorship of the famous Vietnam War photograph, taken on June 8, 1972, in the town of Trảng Bàng, that ...
Photographer and VII Photo Agency co-founder Gary Knight led the two-year investigation which culminated in The Stringer; he had heard rumors about the photograph's incorrect credit a decade prior "at a reunion of Vietnam veteran journalists." Specifically, Knight heard it from Carl Robinson, a photo editor in the AP's Saigon bureau in 1972. [5]
Saigon Execution. Saigon Execution [a] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém [b] [c] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon.
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Faas is also famed for his work as a picture editor, and was instrumental in ensuring the publication of two of the most famous images of the Vietnam War. [3] On 18 June 1965, during the Vietnam War with the 173rd Airborne Brigade on defense duty at Phuoc Vinh airstrip in South Vietnam he took the iconic photo of a soldier wearing a hand ...
Known around the world as "Napalm Girl," Kim Phuc is receiving laser treatment in Miami to help her recover from the scars and pain she has endured since her village in Vietnam was hit by a napalm ...