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Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer Neal Ulevich has written a remarkable rebuke of The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo<\/a>, and the key player who drove the film. <\/p>\n Ulevich spent most of his career working on and off for the Associated Press and won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1977. He worked for AP at the Saigon Bureau during the Vietnam War, where the famous Napalm Girl image arrived on June 8, 1972. <\/p>\n Writing in the Connecting newsletter,<\/a> Ulevich offers a fascinating insight \u2014 which he calls the \u201ccurrent imbroglio\u201d \u2014 by first explaining that he wasn\u2019t in Vietnam when the famous photograph was taken, but on a short trip to the United States. <\/p>\n \u201cWithin days I was back in Saigon where the Burned Girl story was the only story,\u201d Ulevich says. \u201cCarl [Robinson] and all others present \u2014 Horst Faas, Jackson Ishizaki, Tran Mong Tu among them \u2014 said not a word casting doubt on the authorship of the image.\u201d <\/p>\n The decorated photojournalist goes on to say it is \u201cextremely unlikely\u201d that a switch of credit would have evaded his attention. \u201cIt would have circulated among the Vietnamese staff instantly. Gossip rules. And Jackson, a friend, had no reason to keep this one a secret from me.\u201d<\/p>\n While he wasn\u2019t there the day the photo was taken, Ulevich says he relies on the words of other journalists who were present at the scene of Napalm Girl, in particular David Burnett<\/a>. \u201cHe and others have no doubt Nick made the image,\u201d Ulevich adds.<\/p>\n Turning his attention to Robinson, the photo editor who says that legendary AP photographer Horst Faas told him to change the credit on the picture, Ulevich questions his credibility and motivations. <\/p>\n \u201cHaving worked for years with both Carl and Nick Ut in that AP Saigon photo department, I have to say Carl\u2019s hatred of AP and Horst Faas made a deeper impression on me than his conscience cri de coeur,\u201d he writes. <\/p>\n \u201cA personal journal which I kept during the war includes reference to Carl expressing his hatred for Horst Faas.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cCharacter matters,\u201d he continues. \u201cIt is not ad hominem to note Carl\u2019s hatred for Faas, who hired him. Or Carl\u2019s hatred for AP. It is not ad hominem to note Carl\u2019s heroin addiction.\u201d <\/p>\n