One Photographer, Two Iconic Shots

One Photographer, Two Iconic Shots

This has to be the shot of the day: Paris Hilton being driven back to jail, crying and "screaming," according to reports, as a breathless nation watched. The photographer is one Nick Ut, longtime AP photographer — and the Pulitzer-Prize winning photog who took this iconic picture of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the Vietnamese "napalm girl" captured running from her village after a napalm attack, naked and horribly burned. Sort of puts things in perspective.

Read more about Ut — whose real name is Huynh Cong Ut, — here. Read more about Paris Hilton everywhere else.

(Hat tip: HuffPost reader Gotham Tomato.)

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