Napalm Girl (Children Fleeing American Napalm Attack on the Village of Trang Bang, Vietnam)
Artist
Nick Ut (Ut Cong Huynh)
(Vietnamese, born 1951)
Artist
The Associated Press
(founded 1846)
DateJune 8, 1972
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions19.2 x 24 cm (image), 44.4 x 54.4 cm (frame)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Howard G. Davis, III A.K.A. David Davis
Object number2011.176
Label TextBeating her arms like a bird, nine-year-old Kim Phúc, and her brothers and cousins flee a napalm attack near their village of Tràng Bàng. She had torn off her clothes as her flesh burned, screaming “Nóng quá! Nóng quá!” (“Too hot! Too hot!”). After snapping the shutter Ut drove the children to a Saigon hospital, where Phúc recuperated for fourteen months. At first the image was rejected for publication for its frontal nudity. Associated Press editors Horst Faas and Hal Buell argued for an exception, and the moving photograph eventually won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.ProvenanceTime, Inc. Picture Collection
David DavisOn View
Not on view
Hansi Durlach
20th century, printed in 1987
