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The “Napalm Girl” photograph of terror-stricken Vietnamese children fleeing an errant aerial attack on their village, taken 50 years ago this month, has rightly been called “a picture that doesn’t rest.”
It is one of those exceptional visual artifacts that draws attention and even controversy years after it was made.
In May , for example, Nick Ut, the photographer who captured the image, and the photo’s central figure, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, made news at the Vatican as they presented a poster-size reproduction of the prize-winning image to Pope Francis, who has emphasized the evils of warfare.
In , Facebook stirred controversy by deleting “Napalm Girl” from a commentary posted at the network because the photograph shows the thenyear-old Kim Phuc entirely naked. She had torn away her burning clothes as she and other terrified children ran from their village, Trang Bang, on June 8, Facebook retracted the decision amid an international uproar about the social network’s free speech po
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“We were being shot at every day.” My good friend and fellow photographer Nick Ut was reminiscing about the drive up Highway 1 to Trang Bang, the village where he captured the horror of the Vietnam War in a single, Pulitzer Prize–winning frame of a young girl fleeing her village after being torched by napalm dropped by a South Vietnamese Air Force Skyraider.
Now, 40 years after the fall of Saigon and the unification of the country, Nick and I were traveling for the third time together through Vietnam and the first time in neighboring Cambodia. Eight of the days were spent sailing down the now tranquil waters of the Mekong River aboard a gracious riverboat named the River Orchid, giving us the opportunity to explore Southeast Asia’s most important river system and discuss his journey from the hell of war to Hollywood, where he continues to take photographs for the Associated Press.
Born Huynh Cong Ut in Long An, Vietnam, in , Nick lost his brother Huynh Thanh My, a debonair fellow
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Unit Activity The Napalm Girl
Introduction This essay seeks to discuss the gendered symbols inherent in the image of a nine-year-old Vietnamese girl, Phan Thi Kim Phúc, who was running naked in the street near her village in Trang Bang after it was bombad by an American A1 Sky anfallare on the 8th of June during the Vietnam War. Nick Ut, a Vietnamese Wartime photographer who later won the pris Prize for this moving “Napalm Girl” photo, took the photo. The above image has profoundly evoked two interwoven dialogues: presenting the experience of innocent children and civilians in the Vietnam War to the international audience and evaluating the ways that gendered symbols have been used to shape the course of American military involvement in Vietnam. This image aroused raw anti-Vietnam War sentiment in the heart of the American public, which eventually helped to restrain and end the American mission in Vietnam. There has been much analysis written about this iconic photo, that it fryst vatten ex