'You shoot and you hope it's bigger than what's in the frame': Striking images from famed photojournalist Eddie Adams's new book
- 'Eddie Adams: Bigger Than The Frame' presents images from his 50-year career
- Adams did not publish a career retrospective during his lifetime
- His widow Alyssa Adams donated his archive to The University of Texas at Austin
- He may be best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo 'Saigon Execution'
Renowned photojournalist Eddie Adams, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a Vietnamese general in Saigon executing a Viet Cong suspect, changed the way people viewed the horrors of war.
But the new book, 'Eddie Adams: Bigger Than The Frame', published by the University of Texas Press, attests to his desire to tell the stories of people from all walks of life.
'I actually become the person I am taking a picture of. If you are starving, I am starving, too,' Adams once said.
South Vietnamese national police chief Brig General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head in Saigon, taken February 1, 1968. The next year Adams won a Pulitzer for this photo, 'Saigon Execution'
Here Adams stands among US soldiers in Vietnam while on assignment for the AP in 1966. He joined the AP four years prior
Marine Corps troops wait in line to have their head shaved in 1970. Adams considered himself a patriot and a Marine
Marine Corps recruit depot in Parris Island, South Carolina, in 1970. The depot has provided troops in every US war since 1915
Adams captured unidentified soldiers walking in Hoai Chau, Vietnam, on January 31, 1966 during the Vietnam War
An unidentified Viet Cong soldier killed during the Tet Offensive, a campaign of surprise attacks, in Cholon, Saigon, in 1968
This photo shows a starving baby in a Cambodian refugee camp near the Thai border in 1979. The Thai military barred entry
Leila Khaled, who successfully hijacked a Trans World airliner to Damascus, Syria, in 1969, totes a submachine gun at a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon on November 29, 1970
The book presents a career-spanning selection of the photographers best work from the 1950s through the early 2000s.
In addition to Adams's substantive coverage of the Vietnam War, the book includes images of refugees, riots, celebrities and politicians.
Adams started out as a photographer for the Marines during the Korean War and, in 1962, joined the Associated Press. He later worked for Time and Parade magazines.
Jacqueline Kennedy accepts the flag that covered her husband's coffin at Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, in 1963
Servicemen lift President John F Kennedy’s casket off a caisson in front of the Capitol on November 24, 1963
Marilyn Monroe visits troops in Korea during a USO tour in February 1954. She entertained more than 100,000 troops
Human rights activist Malcolm X in New York in 1964. At this time, he had broken with the Nation of Islam and its leader
Riots in Newark, New Jersey, in July 1967. The six days of rioting and destruction left 26 dead and hundreds injured
A black man, his shirt stained with blood running down his face, is cornered in a doorway by club-wielding police on August 30, 1964, in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The man had been clubbed for refusing to move along
His series, 'Boat of No Smiles', about the Vietnamese boat people, influenced the US to admit 200,000 refugees at the end of the war.
With his work, Adams hoped to capture an immediate truth while expressing a larger truth.
'You shoot and you hope it's bigger than what's in the frame,' Adams said.
The Beatles at an undated press conference in New York. Adams took other photos of the band at a Central Park photo op
Musician Louis Armstrong in his dressing room at the International Hotel in Las Vegas on September 6, 1970
Zora Folley and Muhammad Ali during the World Boxing Association World Heavyweight Title match on March 22, 1967
Seventy-nine-year-old lion tamer Jules Jacot bumps heads with one of the 19 lions under his charge at the St Louis Zoo
Former Alabama governor George Wallace at the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami Beach, Florida. Wallace survived an assassination attempt but remained in a wheelchair until his death
Marion Van Harken checking out at an unidentified grocery store in 1983. Adams photographed people from all walks of life
The book, 'Eddie Adams: Bigger Than The Frame', is the photojournalist's first career retrospective. This photo of an unidentified Israeli soldier in the Middle East was taken in 1970
He won more than 500 photojournalism awards during his lifetime and founded the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop for emerging photographers.
In 2004, Adams died of Lou Gehrig's disease, not having seen his coverage of 13 wars published in a book.
Adams's photographic archive was donated by his widow, Alyssa Adams, to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin.
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