The Significance of Girls' Works in War

1973, this photo won the Pulitzer Prize in the United States, and won the best photo of the year in the Dutch World Photojournalism Competition in the same year. Susan sontag once wrote: "It's like the photo 1972 that occupies the front page position of most newspapers in the world-a naked South Vietnamese child who has just been sprayed with napalm by an American ran to the camera along the road. She opened her arms and screamed in pain-this may be more effective than the atrocities of a hundred hours of TV broadcasting in arousing public dislike of war. "

The Associated Press once refused to publish the photos of girls watered with yellow water on the grounds that they were naked in front of the camera and were not suitable for publication in the mainstream media at that time. However, Hal Bill, the editor of The New Yorker at that time, thought that the historical importance of this photo was enough to offset the publication taboo caused by "frontal nudity". Fire from the sky later attracted the attention of the American authorities. Hodman, then Nixon's chief of staff, revealed that Nixon doubted the authenticity of this photo. The little girl Pan Jinshu in the photo survived the disaster and became a historical witness to prove the authenticity of this photo and the tragic Vietnam War. The little girl in the photo is 9-year-old Pan Jinshu. After the photo became famous, she became a follower of news photography. As an adult, she moved to the United States and was appointed as a peace ambassador by the United Nations, traveling around the world and telling the meaning of peace with her own experience. 1996, she already has her own family and children, but her back is still scarred by burns.