Adventures in My Mind
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Jun 12, 2007
A far cry from Vietnam
Here is a take on two photos taken worlds and years apart on the same day by the same photographer, Nick Ut.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc was crying because napalm - black, oily blazing jellied gasoline - was burning the skin off her back.
Paris Hilton was crying because she had just been told she had to serve her 23-day jail sentence in jail.
Funny things, tears. They can be triggered by the happiest moments or the saddest.
They can be set off by brutal pain and sheer terror, as they were for Kim Phuc.
Or they can simply mean you're feeling sorry for yourself. Like Paris.
But these tears, it turns out, had something in common: Exactly thirty-five years apart, they both ended up in the lens of Nick Ut's camera.I realize that not all jobs can be glorious and not all photos can be iconic, but I must ask what happened in those 35 years? Is a job just a just job? And how does one live up to taking one of the most famous photos ever? Surely Paris Hilton can't be the only answer.
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