Tag: Nick Ut
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Trang Bang: 40 Years Later
Link: It’s difficult to explain to someone who has grown up in the world of digital photography just what it was like being a photo-reporter in the all too recently passed era of film cameras. That there was, necessarily, a moment when your finite roll of film would end at frame 36, and you would…
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‘Napalm Girl’ Photographer Nick Ut Talks About the Facebook Controversy
‘Napalm Girl’ Photographer Nick Ut Talks About the Facebook Controversy It seems like everybody has chimed in about the Facebook censorship controversy surrounding Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut’s photo “Terror of via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/15/napalm-girl-photographer-nick-ut-talks-facebook-controversy/ “That picture shows tragedy, not nudity,” says Ut. “Everyone in the world, my fans, supported me […] I’m thankful for everyone’s…
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From Vietnam to Los Angeles: Photographer who captured iconic image on one road sees end of another – LA Times
From Vietnam to Los Angeles: Photographer who captured iconic image on one road sees end of another Nick Ut stood on a road in a village just outside of Saigon when he spotted the girl — naked, scorched by napalm and screaming as she ran. via Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-nick-ut-adv-snap-story.html Almost a half century later,…
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Nick Ut Announces Upcoming Retirement: “Nicky Didn’t Go To The War, The War Came To Him” | NPPA
Nick Ut Announces Upcoming Retirement: “Nicky Didn’t Go To The War, The War Came To Him” Legendary photojournalist Nick Ut has announced his upcoming retirement from The Associated Press after 51 years. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nick-ut-announces-upcoming-retirement-%E2%80%9Cnicky-didn%E2%80%99t-go-war-war-came-him%E2%80%9D “I shipped all my AP cameras to New York,” Ut told News Photographer magazine tonight. “After 51 years I have…
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Photographer Who Took Iconic Vietnam Photo Looks Back, 40 Years After the War Ended | Vanity Fair
Photographer Who Took Iconic Vietnam Photo Looks Back, 40 Years After the War Ended Nick Ut’s photo of Kim Phuc was a transformative moment in a horrible conflict. via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/vietnam-war-napalm-girl-photo-today Nick Ut’s photo of Kim Phuc was a transformative moment in a horrible conflict.
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Nick Ut: The Amazing Saga And The Image That Helped End The Vietnam War
Link: Nick Ut: The Amazing Saga And The Image That Helped End The Vietnam War « The Leica Camera Q: So what did your boss Horst say when he first saw the photo of Kim? A: When he first saw the picture he had just come back from London. He asked who took the picture.…
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Nick Ut – Leica Hall of Fame Award 2012
Leica Portrait: Nick Ut – Leica Hall of Fame Award 2012 Nick Ut is an AP photographer. From the beginning of his career, he has used Leica cameras. His life work has took him to Vietnam, where he captured a war image… via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/49344540 Nick Ut is an AP photographer. From the beginning of…
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What the Still Photo Still Does Best – NYTimes.com
What the Still Photo Still Does Best Thoughts on the enduring power of photojournalism — and on the death of Charles Moore, one of its great practitioners. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/weekinreview/21klibanoff.html?partner=rss&emc=rss The unsettling images from civil rights battlegrounds, followed closely by the disturbing images from Vietnam battlefields by Horst Faas, Eddie Adams, Nick Ut and others, created…
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We're Just Sayin: Closing the Circle
by David Burnett We had been lingering on the edge of battle in this small village when a droning noise came out of the distance. Two A-1 Skyraider planes, with Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) markings started circling Trang Bang. After a couple of passes they began diving towards the village. I had finished the first…