This essay was first published at The Conversation news siteon June 2, 2022, and appears here slightly edited.
The “Napalm Girl” photograph of terror-stricken Vietnamese children fleeing an errant aerial attack on their village — taken 50 years ago today — has rightly been called “a picture that doesn’t rest.”
‘Napalm girl,’ 1972 (Nick Ut/AP)
It is one of those exceptional visual artifacts that draws attention and even controversy years after it was made.
Last month, for example, Nick Ut, the photographer who captured the image, and the photo’s central figure, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, made news at the Vatican as they presented a poster-size reproduction of the prize-winning image to Pope Francis, who has emphasized the evils of warfare.
In 2016, Facebook stirred controversy by deleting “Napalm Girl” from a commentary posted at the network because the photograph shows the then-9-year-old Kim…
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