RIP Malcolm Browne – he captured Quang Duc burning to death in Vietnam (photos)
RIP Malcolm Browne, Associated Press correspondent in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Browne was the photographer who took the picture of Buddhist monk Quang Duc’s self-immolation on a Saigon street June 11, 1963. The image shocked the Kennedy White House into a re-evaluation of its Vietnam policy. Browne’s photo shone a light on human suffering. Today, 24/7 rolling news is the obsession. But a single well-made photograph endures. These pictures are shocking:
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FILE - In this May 4, 1964 file photo, Malcolm Browne, then Associated Press correspondent in Vietnam, home on leave, reads New York newspapers at a newsstand near his parents' residence in New York following his Pulitzer Prize award. Browne, acclaimed for his trenchant reporting of the Vietnam War and a photo of a Buddhist monk's suicide by fire that shocked the Kennedy White House into a critical policy re-evaluation, died Monday night, Aug. 27, 2012 at a hospital in New Hampshire, not far from his home in Thetford, Vt. He was 81. (AP Photo)
Posted: 28th, August 2012 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
