World media photos announced on Friday will suspend author attribution The horror of waralso known as the “Napam Girl”, is an iconic photo taken during the Vietnam War in 1972.
In January, the independent investigation launched by the World Press Conference in January came after a documentary released by the VII Foundation last year questioned whether the Associated Press photographers appreciated the camera.
“Investigative analysis from world media photos shows that based on analysis of location, distance and cameras used on the day, photographers Nguyễnthànhnghệ or Huỳnh Công Phúc may be better at taking photos than Nickút,” the World Press Release said in a press release. “The photos of the world media have suspended Nick’s attribution due to current doubts.”
The photo was discovered as a young Vietnamese photographer who was a staff member of the Associated Press when the photo was taken, and has long been attributed to the capture of the moment the bomb attack from Napalm, carried out by South Vietnamese aircraft on its own troops and civilians. The photo was awarded the World News of the Year in 1973 and the Pulitzer Prize in the same year.
Vertical beamthe VII Foundation's 2024 documentary said that the photo was actually taken by Nguyễnthànhnghệ, a Vietnamese military photographer who was then a stringer, and was misled to find it.
The Associated Press conducted nearly a year of investigation and concluded that “no AP standard requires 'determined evidence' of 53-year-old photographs.”
Bownguyen, Vertical beamThe director's director issued a statement through the VII Foundation's website after the World Media Photos were suspended, saying the announcement “signs a turning point.”
“This movie is also about power – who can see, who is believed and who is written about history,” Nguyen's statement said. “It certainly needs to look at the stories we think we know again.”
Ut's lawyer James Hornstein disputes the film's claims.
He told the Associated Press that his clients did not talk to photos of the world's press before their first contact Vertical beam Released. “It seems they've been determined to punish Nick Utter from the beginning,” he said. Hornstein did not immediately respond to CBC News' request.
World Media Photo said in its version that “the photo itself remains undisputed,” stressing that it won the World News Photography Award for capturing historical moments “still be facts.”
“This is still a controversial history, and the author of the photo may never be fully confirmed. Unless otherwise proven, the suspension of author attribution is suspended.”
