Oct 18, 2011 - Sale 2257

Sale 2257 - Lot 155

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ADAMS, EDDIE (1933-2004)
"General Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing Viet Cong Prisoner Nguyen Van Lém, Saigon." Oversize silver print, 14x19 1/4 inches (35.6x48.9 cm.), with Adams's signature, abbreviated title, and date, in ink, on recto. 1968; printed 1990s

Additional Details

with--A journal entry written by Eddie Adams on the day the execution photograph was taken, which describes the graphic image that earned him a Pulitzer Prize. The journal was recently found by his family and has yet to be published.