http://www.metafilter.com/tags/phuc Posts tagged with 'phuc' at MetaFilter. Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:47:46 -0800 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:47:46 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/67810/Image%2Dof%2Dthe%2DYear <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800712_pf.html">Image of the Year.</a> From the article: "If you want to go shallow for an Image of the Year, you can't do better than <a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2007/06/08/paris-hilton-crying.jpg">Paris Hilton</a>, seen through the window of a Los Angeles sheriff's car, weeping as she's being hauled back to prison to complete a probation-violation sentence. But when you first notice the credit on that now infamous picture, there's a double take. The image came from the camera of <a href="http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0008/ng_intro.htm">Nick</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E1%BB%B3nh_C%C3%B4ng_%C3%9At">Ut</a>, whose <a href="http://www.gallerym.com/images/work/big/pulitzer_nick_ut_vietnam_napalm_kim_phuc_6872_L.jpg">picture of a little girl burned by napalm, naked and running directly toward the camera and into the conscience of the American people</a>, became perhaps the most powerful and influential vision of the Vietnam War. Not only was the Paris Hilton image taken by one of this country's most celebrated war photographers, it was taken June 8, 35 years to the day after the devastating image of 9-year-old Kim Phuc fleeing her bombed-out village. Let's put these two pictures up on the wall together for one last, end-of-the-year look, and see if something emerges." tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.67810 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:47:46 -0800 2007 celebrityculture hilton journalism photography phuc schadenfreude shallowness synchronicity ut vietnam kittens for breakfast