The burning monk, 1963
Most Americans couldn’t find Vietnam on the map and a press photographer Malcolm captured a monk immolating himself on the streets. Brown had an insight that something suspicious was going to happen in the protest and when he arrived, he watched two monks douse an elderly man with gasoline.
He took the photo after and wrote about these moments later and received an award for that. These images taken proved to be iconic after they exposed how America could be pulled out of a quagmire. President Kennedy termed the images as globe-catching emotion as it led to America’s non-interference with a coup in November.