Looking for an Icon (2005)

Name: Looking for an Icon
Genre: Documentary
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Documentary | 55 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 55 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Maaik Krijgsman and Hans Pool

IMDb score: 7,2 (16)

Releasedate: 9 May 2007

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Looking for an Icon plot

News photos: The most famous example is probably the naked Vietnamese girl who runs towards us, burnt after a bombardment with napalm. That photo has become the icon of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. Why does one news photo become part of the collective memory and another not? How can a photo become the symbol of a historical event?