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Eddie Adams: Vietnam

The National Museum of the Marine Corps presents the photographic traveling exhibition “Eddie Adams: Vietnam” on continuous display at the Museum from January 25 through March 22, 2010.

When Eddie Adams (1933-2004) went to Vietnam as a photographer in 1965, he sought to portray the Vietnam experience from the viewpoint of the “grunt,” the platoon solider, with the awareness he brought as a Marine veteran himself. This exhibition presents, out of Adams´ enormous production in his forty-five years as a photographer, the central subject that came to immortalize him: Vietnam.

The work in EDDIE ADAMS: VIETNAM is not just compelling war photography but extraordinary journalism. Adams, like many others, not only photographed but often wrote and filed his own stories. The pictures that emerged were often graphic, shocking, packing emotional power in unflinching frames. Adams had the uncanny ability to give that "you are there" experience to the viewer, and he was there, accompanying troops into battle situations on the front lines.



 

 
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