Nick Ut
PhotographerKnown for: Napalm Girl (1972)
Nick Ut, born Huỳnh Công Út, joined the Associated Press in Saigon as a darkroom assistant and was working as a photographer on June 8, 1972, when he photographed nine-year-old Kim Phuc running from a napalm attack on the village of Trang Bang. The photograph won the Pulitzer Prize the following year. He helped arrange medical treatment for the child he photographed and maintained a friendship with her for the following five decades.
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Nikon
Introduced in 1959, the Nikon F was Japan's first professional 35mm SLR. Its rugged construction, interchangeable viewfinders, and the F-mount lens system made it the predominant camera in photojournalism and war photography through the 1970s.
“Ut photographed Kim Phuc with an Associated Press Nikon F camera on June 8, 1972; AP equipment records and retrospective accounts of the photograph confirm the camera used.”
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