"Back in February 2019, I read a Guardian story about the woman photographed as a 9 year-old in the famous "Napalm Girl" picture taken in Vietnam in 1972. I sent the link to a friend, Tom Fox, who had worked as a correspondent in Vietnam in the '60s and early '70s. I was shocked at his reply. He said that Nick Út, the Associated Press photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for the photo, did not take the picture."
"In a follow-up conversation, Fox said it was actually taken by a stringer who sold his film to the AP's Saigon bureau. Fox said he learned this from Carl Robinson, a friend who was the AP photo editor who processed the photo on that day in June 1972. Fox said Robinson told him that his boss directed him to write a caption crediting Út, an AP staffer, instead of the freelancer who took the picture."
A February 2019 Guardian story about the nine-year-old in the Napalm Girl photograph prompted sharing with Tom Fox, a former Vietnam correspondent. Fox claimed Nick Út did not take the picture and said a freelance stringer sold the film to the AP Saigon bureau. Fox attributed that account to Carl Robinson, the AP photo editor who processed the image and who allegedly was directed to credit Út instead of the freelancer. Út disputes the claim and is backed by photographers David Burnett and Fox Butterfield. Netflix distributed The Stringer documentary, and David Kennerly launched a GoFundMe for Út's legal defense.
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