Eddie Adams is one of the most influential photographer. He is most known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1968 snapshot of Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong soldier.
Eddie Adams about his iconic photo (Jonah Goldberg, National Review 1999);
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.
What the photograph didn’t say was, ‘What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?
Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story, a fascinating documentary directed by Susan Morgan Cooper and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland.
