| Names: | Born: Edward Thomas Adams
Other: Edward T. Adams
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| | Dates: | 1933, 12 June - 2004, 19 September | | Born: | US, PA, New Kensington | | Died: | US, NY, Manhattan | | Active: | Global | | Gender: | Male |
American Pulitzer-Winning photojournalist. He is particularly remembered for his 1968 photograph of the Vietnamese General [Nguyen Ngoc] Loan shooting a prisoner in a Saigon Street at the height of the Vietnam War.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Over a 45-year career in photojournalism, during which he covered 13 wars and was regularly published worldwide, Adams was renowned for his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a South Vietnamese general firing a bullet into a suspected Vietcong prisoner’s head that took on mythical proportions in the public’s memory. With his hands tied behind his back, the victim’s contorted face at the instant of death transformed the event and became a symbol summarizing the bitter Vietnam legacy.
(Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Adams, Eddie, 2008, Eddie Adams: Vietnam, (Umbrage Editions) isbn-10: 1884167969 isbn-13: 978-1884167966 [LL_REF:1949]
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 | Eddie Adams: Street execution of a Viet Cong prisoner, Saigon |
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All photographs by this photographer
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
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