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Arts > Photo > War photographers > Eddie Adams 1933-2004
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A Viet Cong soldier killed during the Tet Offensive, Cholon, Saigon, Vietnam, 1968
Photograph: Eddie Adams
The photojournalism of Eddie Adams – in pictures G Monday 10 April 2017 13.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2017/apr/10/
Gen Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnamese chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Vietcong official Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street early on in the Tet offensive, on 1 February 1968.
Photographer Eddie Adams reported that after the shooting, Loan approached him and said: “They killed many of my people, and yours too,” then walked away.
This photograph received the 1969 Pulitzer prize for spot news photography
Photograph: Eddie Adams AP
Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures G Wednesday 22 April 2015 11.13 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/22/
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Eddie Adams USA 1933-2004
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and combat photographer who produced one of the most riveting images of the Vietnam War
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In a 45-year career, much of it spent in the front ranks of news photographers, he worked for The Associated Press, Time and Parade, covering 13 wars and amassing about 500 photojournalism awards.
But it was a 1968 photograph from Vietnam, taken for The A.P., that cemented his reputation in the public eye and among his peers.
That black-and-white image captured the exact moment that Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, then serving as the national police chief of South Vietnam, fired a bullet at the head of a Vietcong prisoner standing an arm's length away on a Saigon street.
Although there was little doubt that the captive was indeed a Vietcong infiltrator, his seemingly impromptu execution shocked millions around the world when the photograph was first published and it galvanized a growing antiwar sentiment in the United States.
Mr. Adams took the image during the Tet offensive, when the Vietcong began attacks within Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam.
The picture received the Pulitzer Prize for breaking-news photography in 1969.
Together with Nick Ut's 1972 image of a naked girl fleeing her napalmed village and Ronald L. Haeberle's color pictures documenting the 1968 My Lai massacre (which were first published in Life in 1969), Mr. Adams' photograph reinforced a widespread belief that the South Vietnamese and American military were doing more harm than good in trying to win the war against an indigenous insurgency and the North Vietnamese army that sponsored it.
This interpretation long dismayed Mr. Adams, who accepted Brig. Gen. Loan's contention that the man he shot had just murdered a friend of his, a South Vietnamese army colonel, as well as the colonel's wife and six children.
"How do you know you wouldn't have pulled the trigger yourself?"
Adams would later write in a commentary on the image.
Like other combat photographers of the time, including Larry Burrows, David Douglas Duncan, and David Hume Kennerly, Mr. Adams devoted most of his efforts to sympathetically depicting the pain and suffering of American and allied ground troops, just as W. Eugene Smith had done earlier.
As a military veteran, he sought to portray the Vietnam experience from the viewpoint of the grunt, or platoon solider.
But none of his war images achieved the renown of the execution scene. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/arts/20adam.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2017/apr/10/
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/
http://www.npr.org/2009/03/24/
https://www.npr.org/2008/02/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/sep/22/
https://www.npr.org/2004/09/19/
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/arts/20adam.html
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