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Controversial documentary challenges the authorship of one of the most famous historical photographs ever taken

The 'Napalm Girl' photographed changed the world's view of the Vietnam War, but this film claims that it's been attributed to the wrong man for 50 years

Digital Camera World

Who took the ‘napalm girl’ photo? New Sundance documentary disputes original credit

After half a century, a Vietnamese freelance photographer, has claimed he is the real creator of the infamous image, sold for $20 and credited to an AP staff photographer

The Independent UK

A Sundance documentary called ‘The Stringer’ disputes who took AP’s 'napalm girl' photo in Vietnam

The authorship of The Associated Press’s renowned “napalm girl” photograph is being called into question in the new documentary “The Stringer,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah

The Independent UK

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‘Uncomfortable truths’: controversial film challenges authorship of famous photo

The Stringer, which premiered at Sundance, alleges that an incorrect credit was given for iconic ‘Napalm Girl’ picture

The Guardian - US

He is credited with one of history's most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took it

It's one of the most enduring images of the Vietnam War — an Associated Press photograph of a young girl running naked down a street after being caught in a napalm attack

The Independent UK

The Camera Never Lies… or does it? UK exhibition considers the power of documentary photography

First part of a series called ‘What is Truth’ focuses on the role of photography in shaping the narrative of global events

Digital Camera World

Three images that show wartime photographs can have greater impact than the written word

This article contains images that some may finding distressing, including of torture.

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Robert Blake, the actor acquitted in wife's killing, dies at 89

The Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted in the killing of his wife, died Thursday at age 89.

WEKU

Dr. Randall E. McNally, Chicago plastic surgeon who treated ‘napalm girl’ in Vietnam, dead at 92

He did skin grafts for Kim Phuc Phan Thi, a 9-year-old South Vietnamese girl, who was seen in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo running down a road, screaming in pain.

Chicago Sun-Times

Commentary: Images of gun violence could prod the public

Another American holiday. Another mass shooting. This time in Highland Park, Illinois, where at least seven were killed. We seem destined to both celebrate and mourn these days.

Tribune News Service

‘Napalm girl’ Phan Thi Kim Phuc receives final burn treatment after 50 years

Phuc, pictured in 1972 running from napalm attack during Vietnam war, has final laser treatment in Miami

The Guardian - UK

50 years on, war photographer Nick Ut looks back on iconic photo with 'Napalm Girl' Kim Phuc

Fifty years ago a young photojournalist covering the war in his native Vietnam, took a photograph and saved the life of a young girl badly burned by a napalm attack.

ABC News

50 years later, ‘Napalm girl’ says iconic photo made it difficult to ‘navigate private and emotional life’

‘Growing up I sometimes wished to disappear, not only because of my injuries but also because of shame and embarrassment of my disfigurement’

The Independent UK

AP war photos: From Iwo Jima to the napalm girl and beyond

The girl, naked and screaming, ran directly toward Nick Ut’s camera -- and into history.

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The Conversation

'Accidental Napalm' turns 50: the generation-defining image capturing the futility of the Vietnam war

How does an image become an icon? It is estimated that we now produce more images in two minutes than we did in the entire 19th century. How, then, can one image be so powerful it can symbolise the horror of war and help mobilise anti-war sentiment?

The Conversation

50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact

The “Napalm Girl” photograph of terror-stricken Vietnamese children fleeing an errant aerial attack on their village, taken 50 years ago this month, has rightly been called “a picture that doesn’t rest.”

Reuters

Vietnamese photographer gives Pope famous 'Napalm Girl' picture

Award-winning photographer Nick Ut on Wednesday gave Pope Francis one of the 20th century's most famous and consequential news pictures, that of a 9-year old Vietnamese girl running naked from a napalm attack in 1972.

The Independent UK

Retired AP photographer Ut gives pope 'Napalm Girl' photo

Retired Associated Press photographer Nick Ut has met with Pope Francis and gave him a copy of his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a young Vietnamese girl running naked down the road after a napalm attack

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