Friday, March 15, 2013

Quote: Eddy Adams

Adams speaking about his very famous Pulitzer prize winning picture, a picture that helped stop American involvement in Vietnam.

“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 people?

1968 Execution In Saigon Vietnam, Eddy Adams