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UT receives archive of Pulitzer Prize-winning photo-journalist Eddie Adams
The archive of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eddie Adams has been donated to the University of Texas’ Briscoe Center for American History, UT president William Powers Jr. announced today.
Valued between $7 and $8 million, the archive contains hundreds of thousands of Adams’ photographs including “Saigon Execution,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1968 photograph of South Vietnamese General Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner. “Saigon Execution” is widely considered one of the most influential images of the Vietnam War.
The photographer’s widow, Alyssa Adams, donated the archive to UT. She retains the copyright to the images. In a career spanning nearly five decades, Adams worked for the Associated Press, Time and Parade covering some 13 wars, He died in 2004 at age 71.
“This is a profoundly significant addition to our photojournalism archive,” said Don Carleton, Briscoe Center director.
Adams’ archive joins those of other noted photojournalists that UT has acquired such as David Hume Kennerly, Dirck Halstead and Wally McNamee.
An exhibit of select images from the archive is on view now through Jan. 16 at the Briscoe Center. An online version of the exhibit is here.
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