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Eddie Adams, 1933 - 2004



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item posted 0:27:04: 09-21-04 by kyle.

Eddie Adams, photo journalist for half a century, whose 1968 image of the execution of a Viet Cong prisoner by South Vietnam's chief of police came to define a career and a war, died in his sleep Sunday of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 71.

Adams was awarded the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for the photo, which he could not bring himself to view for two years after it was taken. The image galvanized public opinion against the war, but Adams believed it was misunderstood; The man Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan is executing had killed eight of his men just moments before. The Newseum hosts a streaming video clip of Adams remembering the photograph and its consequences. In part, he says:

During a war people die. I ask people a lot, if you're this man, the [colonel], and you just caught this guy after he killed some of your people... You know, it's a war. How do you know you wouldn't have pulled the trigger yourself? A lot of times pictures lie. They've condemned this man ... I think two people died in this picture, not only the man he shot, but him. The photograph destroyed his life.

Adams photographed 13 wars; five presidents, a shah and a lama; Bill Gates, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong and Drew Barrymore; for almost every major news publication. In 2002 he collaborated with Kerry Kennedy Cuomo on the book Speak Truth To Power, a collection of interviews and portraits of human rights defenders throughout the world. The book grew into a nonprofit organization of the same name, to "involve, impassion, and inspire individuals concerned with human rights."

The gallery of Adams' subjects in the Speak Truth project can be viewed here. Above: Chinese dissident Wei Jinsheng. Wei spent 15 years in prison for criticizing the Deng regime, before his release in 1993 a few days before the IOC awarded Beijing the 2008 Summer Games. Below: Adams in 1993, as captured by Paul Waldman for the Living American Masters Photography Project.

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09:26:57PM: 09-22-04

says kymri:

Fantastic post, wow.

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