Nguyen Ngoc Loan : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Nguyen Ngoc Loan / Steve.D.Hammond.
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| 説明 | This image always haunted me so I thought I should paint it, I painted it with black and grey background to get the feel of the concrete city and streets ,I used a little dull green for General Nguyen Ngoc Loan shirt and dull red for the shirt of the victum Nguyễn Văn Lém and of course bright red from the gunshot, its has a gritty feel to the painting because of scrapes to the surface, Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world," AP photojournalist Eddie Adams once wrote. A fitting quote for Adams, because his 1968 photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head at point-blank range not only earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also went a long way toward souring Americans’ attitudes about the Vietnam War. For all the image’s political impact, though, the situation wasn’t as black-and-white as it’s rendered. What Adams’ photograph doesn’t reveal is that the man being shot was the captain of a Vietcong "revenge squad" that had executed dozens of unarmed civilians earlier the same day. Regardless, it instantly became an icon of the war’s savagery and made the official pulling the trigger – General Nguyen Ngoc Loan – its iconic villain. In 1975, during the Fall of Saigon, Loan left South Vietnam. He moved to the United States, and opened a pizza restaurant at Rolling Valley Mall, in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Burke, Virginia. In 1991, Loan was forced into retirement when his identity was publicly disclosed. Photographer Eddie Adams recalled that on his last visit to the pizza shop, he had seen written on a restroom wall, "We know who you are, FU**ERLoan was married to Chinh Mai, with whom he had five children. He died of cancer on July 14, 1998 in Burke, Virginia.Adams felt so bad for Loan that he apologized for having taken the photo at all, admitting, "The general killed the Vietcong; I killed the general with my camera."Eddie Adams later wrote in Time Magazine “ The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. 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 ... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?[Adams later apologized in person to General Loan and his family for the damage it did to his reputation, When General Loan died of cancer in his new home of Virginia, Adams praised him: "The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him,you can watch Eddie Adams Talk About The Saigon Execution Photo on you tube, |
| 撮影日 | 2010-03-20 02:58:58 |
| 撮影者 | Steve.D.Hammond. |
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