Tag: Eddie Adams
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The Vietnam War, Part III: Hands of a Nation – The Atlantic
The Vietnam War, Part III: Hands of a Nation The photojournalist Eddie Adams, who covered the Vietnam War for the Associated Press, not only captured the action and chaos but took the time to get up close to the Vietnamese people whenever he could. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/04/the-vietnam-war-part-iii-hands-of-a-nation/389309/ The photojournalist Eddie Adams, who covered the…
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Eddie Adams: 10 Years On, and War Will Never Be the Same
Eddie Adams: 10 Years On, and War Will Never Be the Same A decade after the death of Eddie Adams, does photojournalism risk being supplanted by propaganda or fabricated images? via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/eddie-adams-ten-years-on-and-war-will-never-be-the-same/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 Maybe our profession and our leaders have failed to protect and preserve the critical role independent war photography plays in our…
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The Impact of the Eddie Adams Workshop – 20 Years Later
Link: The Impact of the Eddie Adams Workshop – 20 Years Later – Assignment Chicago But below are the responses from about twenty different photographers who took the time to reflect and share how Eddie Adams and the workshop had an impact on their lives. At the end, I add some of my own reflections.
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INTERVIEW: “Robert Farber with Eddie Adams”
Link: AMERICAN SUBURB X Eddie Adams: I’m not one to give up negative advice like a lot of picture editors do. I think that there’s a lot of room, for anyone who’s really serious about this and who first of all to be successful in anything–and in photography it’s gonna hurt. You’re gonna cry, you’re…
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The Pulitzer Eddie Adams Didn't Want
Indeed, the reason for his seemingly inexplicable feelings remained a mystery until just recently. His widow, Alyssa Adams, donated his archive to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin on the fifth anniversary of Eddie’s death. The archive includes more than 50 years’ worth of material from a…
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What the Still Photo Still Does Best – NYTimes.com
What the Still Photo Still Does Best Thoughts on the enduring power of photojournalism — and on the death of Charles Moore, one of its great practitioners. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/weekinreview/21klibanoff.html?partner=rss&emc=rss The unsettling images from civil rights battlegrounds, followed closely by the disturbing images from Vietnam battlefields by Horst Faas, Eddie Adams, Nick Ut and others, created…
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photo-eye | Eddie Adams – Vietnam
“Eddie Adams,” writes his widow Alyssa Adams in her Author’s Note to Vietnam, “would never had let this book be published if he were alive.” Link: photo-eye | Magazine — Vietnam
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A documentary looks at prize-winning photographer Eddie Adams – Los Angeles Times
“An Unlikely Weapon” closely examines the life of Adams, who died in 2004 at age 71, having covered 13 wars, working for the Associated Press, Time and Parade, while enjoying private portrait sessions with such leaders and luminaries as Bill Clinton, Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul II. He photographed the iconic image of Clint…