Malcolm Browne
[Journalist and photographer, b. 1931, New York, d. 2012, New Hampshire.]

 I had no point of view. I was concerned that [the photographs] be properly exposed, but since the subject was self-illuminated that wasn’t much of a problem. (On his 1963 photograph of self-immolation of South Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc.) 
 Had a western newsman with a camera not been present at Quang Duc’s suicide, history might have taken a different turn. (On his 1963 photograph of self-immolation of South Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc.)