Project 2 Destroy the Icon

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For my iconic image, I chose the burning monk from 1963. In June of that year, a Buddhist monk named Thích Quang Duc burned himself to death at an intersection in Saigon. He did this as a response to the South Vietnamese Diem regime’s discriminatory Buddhist laws. What mainly prompted this out of all the new laws was the banning of the Buddhist flag and the new pro-catholic sentiment in South Vietnam. This image is one of the most powerful I've ever seen as far as standing up for what you believe is concerned, so I decided to choose it. I'm not too sure what I'll do with it yet.

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