Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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." > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html