Nick Ut
Vietnamese photographer
Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951) is a Vietnamese-American photographer. He worked for the Associated Press.[1] He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for "The Terror of War". The picture showed children running away from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War.[2]
Nick Ut | |
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| Born | Huỳnh Công Út March 29, 1951 |
| Other names | Nick Ut |
| Citizenship | American |
| Occupation | Photojournalism |
| Notable credit | Pulitzer Prize-winner |
| Children | 2 |
His best-known photo, it features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops.[3]
On March 29, 2017, he retired from the Associated Press.[4]
References
change- ↑ Hudson, Berkley (2009). Sterling, Christopher H. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Journalism. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE. pp. 1060–67. ISBN 978-0-7619-2957-4.
- ↑ "Spot News Photography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- ↑ Time Magazine Editors (2016). 100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time. Time Home Entertainment. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-61893-507-6.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "'Napalm Girl' photographer retires after 51 years". Winston-Salem Journal. Associated Press. 2017-03-29. Archived from the original on 2017-03-31. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
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