40 Years Ago Today...

[mtbbrian]

40 years ago today, Eddie Adams made his most famous photograph and what would become an icon of the war in Viet Nam.
An Indelible Image of War, 40 Years Later

Wasn't the camera he used a Nikon RF?
Brian

 

[xayraa33]

i thought it was the F ?

 

[eric]

I remember doing some work for a photog in NYC and I had to go to one of the camera stores in NYC. I saw Eddie Adams and I remember reading that he hated when people came up to him. I think that famous photo really did a lot of bad things to a lot of people.

 

[Trius]

Pixtu: That wasn't the question he was answering. 😉

 

[KoNickon]

It was an F, I'm pretty certain.

Whatever the circumstances of the picture, and what one things of Adams's role, I think the picture was one more piece of evidence that helped turn American public opinion against the war. We don't do well with unpleasant images.

 

[shimo-kitasnap]

photos are half-truths, kinda like Hyuen Cong "Nick" Ut's photo of Kim
Phuc (a naked 12 year old girl fleeing after being burned from a napalm bombing run on her village in Trang Bang, South Vietnam. It is said that this photo turned the war around in 1972 making many people against the war. Many anti-war groups claimed that it was Americans who bombed her village when in fact it the thruth was the South Vietnamese who bombed the village accidentaly.

Nick said in an interview he didn't have time to reload his Nikon F and reahed in the bag for his M2 with 35mm summicron and snapped away as the girl ran past. Imidiatly after taking the photos, he picked her up and took her a Saigon hospital.

 

[xayraa33]

I find the photo more horrible than the actual colour film clip of the execution taken from a similar vantage point as the Adams photo.

 

[Superbus_]

I'm not really interested what kind of camera it was. For me the picture is about the essence of war: life is nothing anything can happen in a moment and people are simple animals.

Additionally about the other famous photo with the running girl:
I think it is a historical evidence that the "army" of the "government" of south vietnam was nothing but a very low level fighting vietnamese group equipped by the USA.

 

[M. Valdemar]

It's funny that in the millions and millions of youtube video clips, nobody ever asks "what video camera?", "what lens?", "what 16mm movie camera?" or "what DV converter?" did you use.

 

[John Rountree]

It was HCB's photograph of the Nazi collaborator being identified that made him realize the power of the still photograph. After he made that image he no longer had any interest in pursuing film making. Yes, that is a powerful image. But so is Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange.