Eddie Adams: Vietnam
This Is An Amazing Book!
After the whole history of Vietnam is written, itll just be our photos. -Eddie
Adams to Nick Ut (author of the 1973 Pulitzer Prizewinning photo of the
napalmed girl running)
The first book by one of the worlds legendary photojournalists, Eddie
Adams: Vietnam is a long-awaited landmark. Adams 1968 Pulitzer
Prizewinning photograph cemented his reputation in the public eye and
stands forever as an icon for the brutality of our last century: the image of
Nguyen Ngoc Loan, police chief of Saigon, firing a bullet at the head of a
Vietcong prisoner. Adams image fueled antiwar sentiment that ultimately
changed the course of history.
Adams life in the headlines took him to the remotest corners of this
troubled, beautiful planet compiling a historic record of the days of our
lives. His forty-five-year career covered thirteen wars and amassed some
five hundred photojournalism awards. He was a man to whom Clint

Eastwood said, Good shot; Fidel Castro said, Lets go duck hunting; and
the Pope said, Youve got three minutes. This is the man behind the
Pulitzer Prizewinning picture that changed the world in 1968.
Through astonishing never-before-seen pictures, articles written by
Adams, pages from journals, and other artifacts, one great journalists
experience of the war is told in gripping detail.
Edited by Alyssa Adams, with an essay by AP Bureau Chief Hal Buell, and
contributions by Peter Arnett, Tom Brokaw, David Halberstam, George
Esper, David Kennerly, Dirck Halstead, Tom Curley, Kerry Kennedy, and
more, this is a classic of modern history and photography.
Personal Review: Eddie Adams: Vietnam
An award winning professional photojournalist, Eddie Adams was assigned
to the Vietnam War where he took photographs that documented the
brutalities and hardships of that horrific conflict. It was Adams who took the
iconic photograph of the execution of a Vietcong prisoner by the national
police chief of South Vietnam, firing a bullet into the head of a man
standing an arm's length away on a Saigon street. Now a tour-de-force of
Adams's work as a photojournalist has been expertly compiled and deftly
edited by Alyssa Adams in "Eddie Adams: Vietnam", a 240-page memorial
consisting of 200 black-and-white photographs that graphical portray
detailed images from the urban and rural battlefields of Vietnam. Of special
note are the succinct commentaries on Eddie Adams' work as a
photojournalist from his fellow journalists ranging from Peter Arnett, David
Halberstam, tom Brokwa, and Tom Curley, to George Esper, Kerry
Kennedy, David Kennerly, Morley Safer, and Bob Schieffer. "Eddie Adams:
Vietnam" is a fitting tribute both to the man who photographed the conflict
that was to alter America in ways that are still reverberating in American
political culture to this very day.
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