South Vietnamese Police Chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan is shown executing a Viet Cong Officer with a single pistol shot in the head Feb 1. The Viet Cong officer grimaces at the impact of the fatal bullet.
"When I saw the picture I was not impressed, and I'm still not impressed," said Eddie Adams of the picture that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1969.
Eddie Adams, who died in 2004, is one of the most well known photojournalists of our time known for his war photography of 13 wars. This year the film An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story, directed by Susan Morgan Cooper, was released. A trailer of the film is available at "An Unlikely Weapon" Trailer from American Photo on Vimeo.
It will be screened on October 28th at the Blanton Museum of Art.
In addition to the screening of the filml, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History which holds a number of photojournalist's collections recently aquired the archive of Eddie Adams from his widow.
Twenty-two years ago Adams started The Eddie Adams Workshop or Barnstorm. It is one of the most prestigious photographic workshops in the country. Admitting only 100 students, the tuition free workshop takes place every October.
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