Eddie Adams Quotes & Sayings

The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera, — Eddie Adams

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

All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name. — Eddie Adams

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.) — Eddie Adams

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. — Eddie Adams

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