Eddie Adams
PhotographerKnown for: Saigon Execution (1968)
Eddie Adams won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his Associated Press photograph of South Vietnamese National Police Chief General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner on a Saigon street on February 1, 1968. He later expressed regret for what he saw as the photograph's unfair damage to the general's reputation and delivered a eulogy at Loan's funeral in 1998. He subsequently spent decades photographing celebrities and fashion, and founded a photography workshop that has launched many careers.
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Nikon
Introduced in 1959, the Nikon F was Japan's first professional 35mm SLR. Its rugged construction, interchangeable viewfinders, and the F-mount lens system made it the predominant camera in photojournalism and war photography through the 1970s.
“Adams used a Nikon F camera for his Vietnam War coverage; AP archive records and accounts of the 1968 execution photograph confirm the Nikon F as his primary camera during that assignment.”
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