Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/20

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Nick Ut's Napalm girl
From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:03:07 -0400

Hi Mike,

This does not contradict what Dabid Burnett's
assertion (quoted by Sal) that he was not the
photographer in the photo. Not that you implied
any such.

- - Phong

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mike Quinn
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 8:31 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Nick Ut's Napalm girl
>
>
> Sal,
>
> I haven't seen the uncropped photo (the cropped one is still
> burned into my
> memory...).
>
> Here's what David Burnett wrote about the incident in an article titled
> "Returning to Saigon" in march 2000. Looks like he and Nick Ut were
> originally in the same position.
>
> "It was in this group that Pham Thi Kim Phuc and her family had been when
> the bombs hit.  She ran with her brother out of the brush onto the paved
> road, and towards us, her skin terribly burned from the heat.   The few
> journalists there had hung just outside the village, waiting to see what
> would happen, and I remember Nick Ut sprinting off from where we were
> standing the moment he understood just what had happened.  He was followed
> moments later by Alex Shimkin, a Washington Post stringer who died in an
> ambush a few months later, while I,  changing film in an old Leica, stayed
> there a few extra seconds trying to load my camera.  I then ran down the
> road and shot some pictures, and later returned to Saigon."
>
> Sal DiMarco,Jr. wrote:
>
> > For the record, David vehemently states he is not the photographer in
> > the photo. I was stunned when the normally calm and humorous Burnett got
> > riled up when I ribbed him about "being out of position."
>
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