Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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