Eddie Adams
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| Adams won the 1969 [[Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography]] and a [[World Press Photo]] award for the photograph (captioned 'General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon'), but would later lament its notoriety. | Adams won the 1969 [[Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography]] and a [[World Press Photo]] award for the photograph (captioned 'General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon'), but would later lament its notoriety. | ||
| - | The picture was used on the cover of [[London Oz]], issue 10, 1968. | + | The picture was used on the cover of [[London_Oz#OZ_10._.28March_1968.29_The_Pornography_of_Violence_issue|London Oz, issue 10, 1968]]. |
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Eddie Adams (June 12, 1933 – September 19, 2004) was an American photographer noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and as a photojournalist having covered 13 wars.
It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph – the picture of police chief General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968.
Adams won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and a World Press Photo award for the photograph (captioned 'General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon'), but would later lament its notoriety.
The picture was used on the cover of London Oz, issue 10, 1968.
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