Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut
Phan Thi Kim Phuc (center) flees from the scene where South Vietnamese planes have mistakenly dropped napalm

Phan Thi Kim Phuc (center) flees from the scene where South Vietnamese planes have mistakenly dropped napalm

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Phan Thi Kim Phuc (center) flees from the scene where South Vietnamese planes have mistakenly dropped napalm
Phan Thi Kim Phuc (center) flees from the scene where South Vietnamese planes have mistakenly dropped napalm
ArtistAmerican, born Vietnam, 1951
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Phan Thi Kim Phuc (center) flees from the scene where South Vietnamese planes have mistakenly dropped napalm
  • Children Fleeing an American Napalm Strike
DateJune 8, 1972
Made inTrangbang, South Vietnam
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 5/8 × 18 1/4 in. (34.5 × 46.4 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment
Object number2005.4
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Fahey/Klein Gallery, Inc., Los Angeles]; purchased by MFAH, 2005.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso lower edge: "CNU-PI-026 "CHILDREN FLEEING AN AMERICAN NAPALM STRIKE, VIETNAM 1974" ED. 20/125 (signature)"
Marked in ink lower right below image: "Nick Ut"
Marked in pencil on verso lower right: "Nick Ut"

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