ARTeFACT: THE PAINTING THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
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The painting that changed the world.
Any times we here of great speeches by orators and master tacticians that helped end wars. Could art works do the same? We find out on this episode of ArteFact.
World renowned photographer Nick Ut captured a picture, when America dropped a lethal bomb in Vietnam in 1972. Nick Ut captured the photograph on June 8, 1972, when he was working with Associated Press, an American News Agency. The picture of a Vietnamese girl who was burned all over the body in the napalm bomb attack by America shook the conscience of everyone.
If there was one photograph that captured the horrific nature of the Vietnam war, one photograph that tore at our collective conscience, it was the picture of a nine year old girl, running naked down a road, screaming in agony from the jellied gasoline coating her body and burning through skin and muscle down the bone. Her village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam was napalmed that day in 1972, and the little girl took a direct hit. It would take many years, and 17 operations to save her life. And when she finally felt well enough to put it behind her, that very photograph would make her a victim, all over again.
Kim Phuc the lady he photographed said "I saw the bombs. I saw the fire. There was a terrible heat," Kim remembers. "I tore off my burning clothes. But the burning didn't stop. People poured water over me from their canteens then I fainted.
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