AP's legendary 'Napalm Girl' photographer Nick Ut to retire
AP photographer Nick Ut captured what would become a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo depicting children fleeing from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War. In the center of the frame, running towards the camera, was a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, who came to be known as “napalm girl.”
In 1973, AP photographer Nick Ut won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for “The Terror of War,” his photograph featuring Phan Thị Kim Phúc. The image was unprecedented at the time for the Associated Press news wire, given the full frontal nudity. Although it was a controversial decision, Ut’s fellow Associated Press colleagues, Hal Buell and Horst Faas, deemed the photograph newsworthy, and it was widely distributed on the AP newswire.
The photograph is now considered one of the most memorable of the 20th century.
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