1972 - Photography
Photography
The Polaroid SX-70 system unveiled in April produces a color print that develops outside the camera while the photographer watches.
The film-less electronic camera patented by Texas Instruments is the first of its kind and will lead to digital cameras for civilian use. The National Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) converted in the 1960s from analog to digital signals in its space probes, and the U.S. Government's spy satellites have been using digital imaging (see Sony Mavica, 1981).
Vietnamese Associated Press photographer Hyunh Cong "Nick" Ut, 21, captures an image of 9-year-old Kim Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing naked and in tears down a road 25 miles west of Saigon June 8 after she was napalmed in an offensive launched by Hanoi (he takes her to a hospital, where she will recover after 14 months of treatment); The Tree Where Man Was Born and Birds of North America by Eliot Porter, now 70, whose Kodachrome nature pictures have gained worldwide renown.
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