An Unlikely Weapon, a Susan Morgan Cooper film His photograph of a Saigon execution changed the country's sentiment toward the Vietnam War overnight. The picture won a Pulitzer Prize, but it would torment photographer Eddie Adams until he died in 2004. An Unlikely Weapon, a new documentary produced by Susan Morgan Cooper, examines Adams’s complicated life, weaving together accounts from his family and wartime colleagues, and from media greats like Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings.
- 4/14/2009
- Vanity Fair
Where do I get in line for this? The new documentary, An Unlikely Weapon fixes its lens on the life of Eddie Adams, who did that very thing for 50 years. Adams was one of the great photographers of the 20th century, best known for the shocking picture below.
How many times have you seen this image in your lifetime? Hundreds, probably, and it's just the tip of the iceberg in Adams' storied career. As much as any one picture can, it marked a turning point in American opinion about Vietnam, and is as good an example of photojournalism as you'll ever see.
An Unlikely Weapon has canvassed Adams' associates in the media over several years; the interviews with Peter Jennings have to be a few years old, as do any of the chats with Adams himself, since he passed away in 2004. But it's a great idea for documentary, to see...
How many times have you seen this image in your lifetime? Hundreds, probably, and it's just the tip of the iceberg in Adams' storied career. As much as any one picture can, it marked a turning point in American opinion about Vietnam, and is as good an example of photojournalism as you'll ever see.
An Unlikely Weapon has canvassed Adams' associates in the media over several years; the interviews with Peter Jennings have to be a few years old, as do any of the chats with Adams himself, since he passed away in 2004. But it's a great idea for documentary, to see...
- 4/13/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
You may not know the name Eddie Adams, but unless you just arrived from Mars (or New Jersey) you know the photographer's most famous image: a Vietnamese general shooting dead a Viet Cong prisoner at point-blank range on a Saigon street in 1968.
The photo won a Pulitzer Prize and helped turn Us public opinion against the ill-advised war.
In the documentary "An Unlikely Weapon," Adams and people such as Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Morley Safer talk extensively about his career as...
The photo won a Pulitzer Prize and helped turn Us public opinion against the ill-advised war.
In the documentary "An Unlikely Weapon," Adams and people such as Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Morley Safer talk extensively about his career as...
- 4/10/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
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