David Schonauer of American Photo has uncovered a rather stunning coincidence, the picture that’s been making the rounds of P.H. being hauled back to jail was taken by none other than Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut. Nick Ut, as you remember from Photo History 101, was the photographer who took one of the iconic pictures of the Vietnam war, the picture of Kim Phuc running naked down a country lane after suffering serious napalm burns. Ut’s photograph was arguably the apex of the notion of “The Concerned Photographer,” Cornell Capa’s phrase for the idea that photographs of injustices and atrocities could help correct the situations that led to them. And get this: the 2 pictures were taken exactly 35 years apart, to the day. Quite a coincidence.

ah the irony

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