Kim Phuc’s photograph (the “Napalm girl”) escaping the attack, with third -degree burns.
New documentary displays an investigation that suggests that the iconic Pulitzer award winning photo could be attributed to another photographer who also recorded the war on Vietname.
“The Stringer” is the new documentary that debuted at the Sundance Festival and focuses on an investigation conducted in the image of the “Napalm Girl” (whose original title is “The Terror of War”), one of the most famous of the twentieth century by What is its author – or at least the author to which he is attributed – received a Pulitzer Prize, one of the most respected in the field of journalism and art.
In the movie, it is claimed that, in fact, Nick Utthe AP journalist who will have captured the photograph that displays a naked 9 -year -old girl to escape a northern Vietname attack on South Vietname in Trang Bang, It is not your true author.
Carl Robinson, the service photography editor at the AP Office in Ho Chi Minh on the day the image was captured in 1972, began to talk about the provenance of photography. And that’s when the investigation began.
“I started writing the subtitle… Horst Faas (the head of photography in Ho Chi Minh at the time), who was at my side, said: ‘Nick Ut. Put Nick Ut, ”says Robinson in the documentary.
Now a Vietnamese photographer, Nguyen Thanh Nghewho was also present on the day of the attack claims to have been taking the photograph itself. “Nick UT came with me on the mission. But it wasn’t he who took the photograph … The photograph was mine“He says.
“Getting this recognition for NGHE… It was always important to us as a shooting team to share this story with the world,” said director Bao Nguyen.
The filmmakers also hired Index, a French -based NGO, which specializes in forensic investigations, which he ensured to be “Highly unlikely” that UT was in the correct position To take the photograph.
UT’s lawyer, Jim Hornstein, said, quoted by, that the photographer who triggered the investigation, Carl Robinson, has a “50 -year -old revenge against Nick UT, AP and Horst Faas” and said that “one will soon be brought about Defamation Action against the filmmakers of the film ”.
The AP then tried to perform one on the subject itself. Concluded that there are no data that proves that UT did not capture the image, but also admit that did not have access to the same data as the directors.
“We can no longer say that Associated Press is only interested in the facts and in a true history of this iconic photography,” writes the news agency.
