Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike Quinn wrote: > 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: Here is a link to the uncropped version of the picture. http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0008/ng4.htm According to Horst Faas's account, Nick Ut also used an M2 when he shot the award-winning picture. Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street (212) 463-0029 | New York, Ny 10014 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html