Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/12
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From the Pulitzer website (the only Pulitzer listed for Eddie Adams):
1969
Spot News
Photography
Edward T. Adams
Associated Press
For
his photograph, "Saigon Execution."
Tim A
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Bert
> Sent: September 12, 1999 1:08 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Re: E.Adams & Vietnam Photo
>
>
> >My questions are this; I've seen moving picture footage of the very same
> >vantage point, where the entire sequence is played out in
> horrific detail.
> >Am I to understand that Mr. Adams AND a motion picture cameraman were
> >standing side by side at that moment? Is the single fame we all
> attribute to
> >Mr. Adams (and a Leica) actually a frame taken from a motion
> picture camera?
> >Does anyone know about the 'real time' segment I am referring
> to? Has anyone
> >else seen it? Did E. Adams photo earn a Pulitzer as I am led to believe?
> >(and what year was that awarded?)
> >Did the 'real time' footage gain equal acclaim?
>
> Yes, I have seen the real time segment you mention, in it you see the fall
> to the ground. I recall it to be futher away from the action and also more
> to the left. Eddie Adams was standing much closer to the action than that
> cameraman.
> Therefore I don't think the famous photo is not a frame from a motion
> picture camera. Don't know about the Pulitzer though.
>
> Bert K.
>