Eddie Adams
(June 12, 1933 – September 18, 2004) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning
American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of
celebrities and politicians and his coverage of 13 wars.
Adams
served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War as a combat
photographer. One of his assignments was to photograph the entire Demilitarized
Zone from end to end immediately following the war. This took him over a month
to complete.
While
covering the Vietnam War for the Associated
Press, he took his best-known photograph – the picture of police
chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Vietcong
prisoner, Nguyễn Văn Lém,
on a Saigon
street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive,
which won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News
Photography and a World Press Photo
award for the photograph.
Along with
the Pulitzer, Adams received over 500 awards, including the George Polk
Award for News Photography in 1968, 1977 and 1978, and numerous
awards from World Press Photo, NPPA, Sigma Delta Chi, Overseas Press Club, and
many other organizations.
Adams died
in New York City
from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known
as Lou Gehrig's disease. Adams's legacy is continued through Barnstorm: The
Eddie Adams Workshop, the photography workshop he started in 1988.
Abstract from Wikipedia
Image source: BBC News: Eddie Adams Photography
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