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Eddie Adams, born on June 12, 1933, started his career taking wedding photographs for 20 dollars in high school. It is amazing to think of the start of his career as he would soon become such a world renowned photographer. Adams covered 13 wars in his career beginning in Korea in the early 50's and ending in Kuwait in '91. In one of his three tours in Vietnam he captured the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a Viet Cong lieutenant being executed by a South Vietnamese General on a Saigon street.
Adams received over 500 awards over his five decades as a photographer. He photographed a large range of celebrated people including Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro, and Pope John Paul II. His work has been seen on pages of many newspapers and magazines including Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Parade.
Adam's favorite photographs were those that moved others to positive action. His photograph "Boat of No Smiles" depicted 50 Vietnamese fleeing their homeland on a 30 foot fishing boat. The painful emotion in the photograph led Congress and President Carter to open the door to more than 200,000 refugees from Vietnam.
Another example of his work suprring people into action is seen with his photograph of a three year old with leukemia who was photographed with her security blanket. Karen Loucks, upon seeing this photograph, founded a non-profit that provides security blankets the the seriously ill.
Eddie Adams was an amazing photographer, and sadly passed away on September 19, 2004.
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