The New York Times > Arts > Eddie Adams, Journalist Who Showed Violence of Vietnam, Dies at 71. Published: September 20, 2004 ddie Adams, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and combat photographer who produced one of the most riveting images of the Vietnam War, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 71. The cause was Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, said Judy Twersky, a spokeswoman for the Eddie Adams Workshop. 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.
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. It was in that capacity that Mr. For the last 20 years Mr. Mr. The Saigon Execution by Horst Faas. Horst Faas, photographer and photo editor now retired from The Associated Press, remembers the day he saw Eddie Adams' Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of the execution of a Vietcong in 1968. London, Sept. 19, 2004 - Editing film could be a dreary business, but on that day, 36 years ago - the second day of the communist attacks into the very centers of South Vietnam's cities - I felt as though I had won the jackpot of a lottery.
Running my Nikon eyeball quickly over a roll of black-and-white film from Eddie Adams, I saw what I had never seen before on the lightbox of my Saigon editing desk: The perfect newspicture - the perfectly framed and exposed "frozen moment" of an event which I felt instantly would become representative of the brutality of the Vietnam War. The 12 or 14 negatives on that single roll of film, culminating in the moment of death for a Viet Cong, propelled Eddie Adams into lifelong fame. The Vietnam War, Through Eddie Adams' Lens. Pulitzer prize 1968 commented by its photographer, Eddie Adams. JournalismEthics@TXState: Eddie Adams: "Execution of a Viet Cong" The picture above was taken by the late AP photographer, Eddie Adams, during the Vietnam War.
It includes the South Vietnamese Colonel, Nguyan Ngoc Loan, shooting a bullet to the temple of a prisoner of war who was a Viet Cong captain. The picture made headlines around the United States hours after Adams turned in the photo. It was a image that would change the view of the war. It had a good impact for the photographer and the world and a bad impact for the shooter in the picture. The picture, which was called “Execution of A Viet Cong", was taken Feb. 1, 1968, the second day of the communist’s Tet Offensive, or the North Vietnamese army attacks on Saigon and other parts of South Vietnam. The photo was shocking and horrific to many around the world.
According to the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, journalists should: seek the truth and report it. Adams would later win a Pulitzer Prize for the execution photograph. Eddie Adams - Obituaries - News. Edward Thomas Adams, photojournalist: born New Kensington, Pennsylvania 12 June 1933; married first Ann Fedorchak (one son, two daughters; marriage dissolved), second 1989 Alyssa Adkins (one son); died New York 19 September 2004. Eddie Adams became famous as the photographer who, in a single image, symbolised the violence and pathos of the Vietnam War.
The image which he made on a Saigon street corner on 1 February 1968, of Brigadier-General Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting a Vietcong prisoner through the head at close range, became iconic in news reportage and began a long-running debate about the ethics of photojournalism. But Adams was far more than an opportunist press man, sending an outrageous image across the world to further his career. Like many of his journalistic contemporaries, he was an intelligent, critical observer of one of the United States' most damaging military adventures, questioning US intervention in South-East Asia and also the role of combat reportage.
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