40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken

[Catty1]

The title did say "40 of the most", implying there are many many more most moving pictures to add to the list. I suspect this person is doing that.

[cassiesmom]

I found this picture on Wikipedia; I think it is the one Pomtzu meant. In the article accompanying the picture I learned some things I had not known. The photographer helped get the girl to a hospital for care for her burns. She survived and went to Cuba for college studies. She met her husband there and while they were traveling to Moscow on their honeymoon, they deplaned in Newfoundland and requested asylum in Canada. She is now a Canadian citizen. I don't know a lot about the Vietnam War, but I have recollections of seeing this picture as a child and even as a high school student, but not really understanding it (What is burning? Why are the children running? Why are the children crying? Where are the child's clothes? Why aren't the soldiers helping them? etc.).


photo by Vietnamese photographer Nick Út

[Lady's Human]

The children are running and crying because their village had just been attacked by the ARVN to take it back from North Vietnamese forces. The people in the picture are victims of a blue on blue attack from the South Vietnamese AF, the pilot of the attack plane had mistaken the gaggle of people for NVA forces and attacked with napalm, which is why the child's clothes are missing, they were burned off.

[Catty1]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/arti...s-her-saviours




Kim Phuc, left, at the Fairmont Royal York with Nick Ut, the photographer who took the famous, Pulitzer Prize-winning, June 8, 1972 photo of Phuc running naked in in the wake of a napalm attack on her village during the Vietnam War.