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Film About Eddie Adams Opens Friday
April 8, 2009
By Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher
"An Unlikely Weapon," a documentary about
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Eddie Adams, opens
Friday in New York and will be screened across the country in
coming months.
Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, it includes interviews with
Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Morley Safer,
Gordon Parks and President Bill Clinton.
The film, produced and directed by Susan Morgan Cooper, will
open at New York's Quad Theatre.
"In 1968, while covering the war for the Associated Press, Eddie
Adams photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan,
shooting a Vietcong guerilla point blank. Ironically, it was Adams’
shot that was heard around the world, taken at 1/500th of a
second," a release about the film states. "The photo brought Adams’
fame and a Pulitzer, but the man he had vilified haunted him. Adams
would later say, 'Two lives were destroyed that day – the victim’s
and the general.' Yet others would say, three lives were
destroyed."
The film looks at the photographer's life after the war, noting
"Eddie Adams, like most artists, was tortured by his need for
perfection. Nothing he did ever satisfied him. He carved out many
careers, shooting covers for Life, Time, and even Penthouse. Yet,
somehow, Adams was always pulled back into documenting wars – 13
all together. Finally he hit the wall and couldn’t take it anymore.
He began shooting celebrities because 'it doesn’t take anything
from you.'"
Adams died in 2004. His Vietnam
photography is the subject of a new book and
exhibition by Umbrage Editions. A
highly respected photojournalism
workshop Adams created continues to be run under his
name.
More information on the film, including the release schedule for
other cities, is available at: http://www.anunlikelyweapon.com.
View the trailer on the PDNPulse blog.
Joe Strupp (jstrupp@editorandpublisher.com)
is a senior editor at Editor &
Publisher.
Film About Eddie Adams Opens Friday
April 8, 2009
By Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher
"An Unlikely Weapon," a documentary about Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Eddie Adams, opens Friday in New York and will be screened across the country in coming months.
Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, it includes interviews with Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Morley Safer, Gordon Parks and President Bill Clinton.
The film, produced and directed by Susan Morgan Cooper, will open at New York's Quad Theatre.
"In 1968, while covering the war for the Associated Press, Eddie Adams photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong guerilla point blank. Ironically, it was Adams’ shot that was heard around the world, taken at 1/500th of a second," a release about the film states. "The photo brought Adams’ fame and a Pulitzer, but the man he had vilified haunted him. Adams would later say, 'Two lives were destroyed that day – the victim’s and the general.' Yet others would say, three lives were destroyed."
The film looks at the photographer's life after the war, noting "Eddie Adams, like most artists, was tortured by his need for perfection. Nothing he did ever satisfied him. He carved out many careers, shooting covers for Life, Time, and even Penthouse. Yet, somehow, Adams was always pulled back into documenting wars – 13 all together. Finally he hit the wall and couldn’t take it anymore. He began shooting celebrities because 'it doesn’t take anything from you.'"
Adams died in 2004. His Vietnam photography is the subject of a new book and exhibition by Umbrage Editions. A highly respected photojournalism workshop Adams created continues to be run under his name.
More information on the film, including the release schedule for other cities, is available at: http://www.anunlikelyweapon.com.
View the trailer on the PDNPulse blog.
Joe Strupp (jstrupp@editorandpublisher.com) is a senior editor at Editor & Publisher.
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