09/06/06: Eddie Adams
It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph – the picture of police chief executing a Vietcong, on a Saigon street, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive 1968.
Eddie Adams covered 13 wars, beginning with a stint as a Marine Corp combat photographer in Korea in the early 1950s and ending in Kuwait in 1991.
He did three tours of Vietnam with the Associated Press and won the Pulitzer Prize for photography for his shot of a Viet Cong lieutenant being executed at close range on a Saigon street by a South Vietnamese general.
In his more than five decades as a working photographer, Adams received more than 500 awards honoring his work, including World Press, New York Press, National Headliners and Sigma Delta Chi Awards.
He said he likes getting them; that they're nice. But he didn't display them.
He didn't display that famous photo from Vietnam, either.
If he'd had his way, that photo would never be released for publication again.
Eddie Adams covered 13 wars, beginning with a stint as a Marine Corp combat photographer in Korea in the early 1950s and ending in Kuwait in 1991.
He did three tours of Vietnam with the Associated Press and won the Pulitzer Prize for photography for his shot of a Viet Cong lieutenant being executed at close range on a Saigon street by a South Vietnamese general.
In his more than five decades as a working photographer, Adams received more than 500 awards honoring his work, including World Press, New York Press, National Headliners and Sigma Delta Chi Awards.
He said he likes getting them; that they're nice. But he didn't display them.
He didn't display that famous photo from Vietnam, either.
If he'd had his way, that photo would never be released for publication again.
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