I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting … - Eddie Adams

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Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

Eddie Adams

I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan. )

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If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

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Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

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I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I had no idea he would shoot. It was common to hold a pistol to the head of prisoners during questioning. So I prepared to make that picture - the threat, the interrogation. But it didn't happen. The man just pulled a pistol out of his holster, raised it to the VC's head and shot him in the temple. I made a picture at the same time. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan. )

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Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.

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I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

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