Background

Edward Adams was born on June 12, 1933, in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States.

Career

Adams joined the United States Marine Corps in 1951 during the Korean War as a combat photographer. One of his assignments was to photograph the entire Demilitarized Zone from end to end immediately following the war. This took him over a month to complete.

Adams started a photojournalism workshop, The Eddie Adams Workshop (also known as the Barnstorm) in 1988. It reached its thirtieth year in 2017.

On September 19, 2004, Adams died in New York City at age 71 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Achievements

• Adams won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and a World Press Photo award for the photograph.

Works

More photos

• book

  • Eddie Adams: Vietnam 2008

• photography

  • Saigon execution. South Vietnamese officer executes a Viet Cong prisoner

    (It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated ...)

    1968

  • Jacqueline Kennedy with Cardinal O’Conner

    (At President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s funeral, his widow...)

    1963

  • Chinese Army

    1979

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  • Beauty contestants waited to go on stage for the 1987 Miss Fredericksburg Fair

    1987

  • photography

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  • Al Schaben, Adrees Latif, and Robert Seale, EAW 6

    1993

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    1972

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    1969

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Connections

Eddie Adams was married twice and had 4 children.

Spouse:

Alyssa Adams

spouce:

Ann Fedorchak

References

• Eddie Adams: Bigger than the Frame Best-known for Saigon Execution, his Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph that forever shaped how the world views the horrors of war, Eddie Adams was a renowned American photojournalist who won more than five hundred awards, including the George Polk Award for News Photography three times and the Robert Capa Gold Medal.