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BIOGRAPHY: Eddie Adams was born as Edward T. Adams on June 12, 1933 in New Kensington PA. A Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer, Eddie Adams is also certainly considered one of the most versatile. While best known for his war photograph in which a Vietcong prisoner is executed on he street during the Vietnam War, Adams has also photogaphed for the fashion world, international politics, and for magazines such as Penthouse, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Vogue, TIME, Newsweek, etc. Clearly he is a master of the camera, and in manipulating images across all contexts. From his stint as a combat photographer while serving the United States Marine Corps in Korea, Throughout his career Adams has garnered an impressive collection of awards, which among them include the Pulitzer Prize, the 1978 Robert Capa Award, and George Polk Memorial Awards. He has covered more than thirteen wars, and his photrographs have greatly impacted all those who have seen them. Adams is also active in contributing to the photography world given that he holds an annual photo event, Barnstorm: The Eddie Adams Photojournalism Workshop for both amateurs and professionals alike. Adams recently passed away on September 14th 2004 from Lou Gehrig's disease. But his legacy lives on through his workshop and through his photographs. There is an Online Tribute to Eddie Adams in which his peers and contemporaries express their grief and share their heartfelt memories of Adams' life and career. |
"You've got three minutes." -- The Pope to Eddie Adams "Lets go duck hunting." -- Fidel Castro to Eddie Adams
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"The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths." -- Eddie Adams on his famous photograph of the general executing the Vietcong on the street See picture here
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