Famous Photographs from the Vietnam War

Emily Dugan 1-18-14

Nick Ut• Photographer for the Associated Press (AP)• He was wounded three times in the war as a photographer • “...an editor at the AP rejected the photo of Kim Phuc running

down the road without clothing because it showed frontal nudity. Pictures of nudes of all ages and sexes, and especially frontal views were an absolute no-no at the Associated Press in 1972...Horst argued by telex with the New York head-office that an exception must be made, with the compromise that no close-up of the girl Kim Phuc alone would be transmitted. The New York photo editor, Hal Buell, agreed that the news value of the photograph overrode any reservations about nudity.”

Phan Thị Kim Phúc

• Phan Thị Kim Phúc: A Vietnamese-Canadian girl featured in this prize winning picture taken on June 8, 1972.

• The picture was taken in Trang Bang, and shows her when she was about nine years old running naked on a road after being burned on her back by a napalm attack.

• Photograph taken by Nick Ut

Phan Thị Kim Phúc

Eddie Adams • Adams served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean

War as a combat photographer• Photographer for the Associated Press when he took his most

notorious photo• “The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. ... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American people?”

• They agreed to publish this picture but offset with a picture of a child being killed by a Vietcong

This is an award winning picture of police chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner.Picture taken by Eddie Adams

Henri Huet

• Was a French war photographer• Noted for his work in the Vietnam

War for Associated Press (AP). • Huet's photographs of the war were important in

modifying American public opinion. • While he was on a helicopter tour, they got lost,

resulting in it and a second chopper getting shot down, killing all 11 on the photographers' aircraft and four on the other

Henri Huet

Horst Faas

• Ap photographer• he was severely wounded in the legs by an

RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) and used a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

Horst Faas

Dickey Chappelle

• an American photojournalist • known for her work as a war journalist from World

War II through the Vietnam War.• took up parachuting at the age of 40 to report guerilla

battles in unwelcoming land.• “First female reporter to win approval from the

Pentagon to jump with American troops in Vietnam.”• “killed by a land mine while on patrol with a platoon,

becoming the first war correspondent killed in Vietnam.”

Dickey Chappelle