Eddie Adams Shipway
Photojournalism Research Paper- Eddie Adams Shipway
American photographer and photojournalist, Eddie Adams, was born on the twelfth of June in the year nineteen thirty-three. He began his photography career as a high school student in New Kensington Pennsylvania, the city in which he was born. He photographed Marine combat during the Korean war. Throughout his career, Adams photographed 150 operations in Vietnam as well as thirteen wars, including those in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, Portugal, Ireland, Lebanon, and Kuwait. In 1969 he won a Pulitzer Prize for capturing the moment Nguyen Ngoc Loan, general and chief of the national police, shot Vietcong officer Nguyen Van Lem on a street in Saigon on February first, nineteen sixty-eight, during the Vietnam War. Saigon Execution is so iconic that it is the picture most people think of when they think of Vietnam. Eddie Adams almost obsessively wanted to win a Pulitzer Prize. He desperately wanted to win a Pulitzer long before he’d ever encountered the Vietcong prisoner in Saigon. Adams admitted how deeply he wanted to win a Pulitzer Prize for his photography of widowed first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, holding the flag that had been handed to her at her husband’s (President John F. Kennedy’s) funeral in November of nineteen sixty-three. In fact, he was quite angry when he did not win the Pulitzer not only for not winning but also because an administrator at The Associated Press submitted other A.P. pictures to the Pulitzer jury but not his. Eddie’s photo of Jacqueline Kennedy was taken on purpose. He waited for the perfect moment to take the picture to ensure that he captured every …show more content…
He brought many ugly truths of the world to life with his photographs. His pictures evoke an array of emotions, anywhere between sorrow and pain to joy and happiness. This is why i think that Eddie’s work is so
American photographer and photojournalist, Eddie Adams, was born on the twelfth of June in the year nineteen thirty-three. He began his photography career as a high school student in New Kensington Pennsylvania, the city in which he was born. He photographed Marine combat during the Korean war. Throughout his career, Adams photographed 150 operations in Vietnam as well as thirteen wars, including those in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, Portugal, Ireland, Lebanon, and Kuwait. In 1969 he won a Pulitzer Prize for capturing the moment Nguyen Ngoc Loan, general and chief of the national police, shot Vietcong officer Nguyen Van Lem on a street in Saigon on February first, nineteen sixty-eight, during the Vietnam War. Saigon Execution is so iconic that it is the picture most people think of when they think of Vietnam. Eddie Adams almost obsessively wanted to win a Pulitzer Prize. He desperately wanted to win a Pulitzer long before he’d ever encountered the Vietcong prisoner in Saigon. Adams admitted how deeply he wanted to win a Pulitzer Prize for his photography of widowed first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, holding the flag that had been handed to her at her husband’s (President John F. Kennedy’s) funeral in November of nineteen sixty-three. In fact, he was quite angry when he did not win the Pulitzer not only for not winning but also because an administrator at The Associated Press submitted other A.P. pictures to the Pulitzer jury but not his. Eddie’s photo of Jacqueline Kennedy was taken on purpose. He waited for the perfect moment to take the picture to ensure that he captured every …show more content…
He brought many ugly truths of the world to life with his photographs. His pictures evoke an array of emotions, anywhere between sorrow and pain to joy and happiness. This is why i think that Eddie’s work is so