Top 100 Photos- The Burning Monk

1. Why did you pick this image? What caught your eye? I picked this image because there is a strong presence of resilience by the man in the photograph. This caught my eye because of the flames and because there was a man sitting on the ground, peacefully, while he was on fire.

2. Summarize what you read. How about 2-3 sentences explaining the photo. Malcolm Browne had been told that there was going to be something worth seeing to protest the treatment of the Buddhists by the Vietnam regime. This image went viral and helped to question the United States' association with the regime. In turn, the United States did not interfere with a coup to overthrow the regime that occured after the photo had been taken. 

3. Every photo has some additional information, links, readings, or videos associated. Please tell me what you learned in addition to the actual photo. The additional information assiciated with this picture is a voice recording of the photographer and how the event in the picture played out. The man who is on fire was an old monk who sat in the middle of a circle of monks in the middle of the street. Two of the younger monks poured gasoline on the old monk, who then took out a matchbook and lit himself on fire. The photographer continued to descride the shock and horror of the people watching the event unfold, which is encaptured in the picture that he took.

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Name: Malcolm Browne
Birth and death year: April 17, 1931 – August 27, 2012
Born where: New York City
School attended (college or photo school): He attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he studied Chemestry. He started photography when he got drafted into the Korean War.