Description
Book SynopsisBest-known for Saigon Execution, his Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph that forever shaped how the world views the horrors of war, Eddie Adams was a renowned American photojournalist who won more than five hundred awards, including the George Polk Award for News Photography three times and the Robert Capa Gold Medal. During his fifty-year career, he worked as a staff photographer for the Associated Press, Time, and Parade, and his photos appeared on more than 350 magazine covers. Adams is also famous and deeply respected for founding the Eddie Adams Workshop, an intensive photography seminar whose graduates include twelve Pulitzer Prize–winners and many others who have achieved illustrious careers in journalism, commercial photography, and media.
Eddie Adams presents a career-spanning selection of the photographer’s finest work from the 1950s through the early 2000s, drawn from the Eddie Adams Photographic Archive at the Dolph Bris
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"[The book] is a valuable contribution to the history and practice of photojournalism that warrants space on any visual communications' instructor's bookshelf." * American Journalism: A Media History Journal *
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Don Carleton
- Preface by Alyssa Adams
- Everything but the Picture by Anne Wilkes Tucker
- Plates
- Early Work: The 1950s and 1960s
- The 1970s
- The World
- Portraits
- Timeline
