Friday, November 5, 2010

Colonel Loan Tet '68

Oleg Volk
"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?

How do you know you wouldn't have pulled the trigger yourself?"

Eddie Adams, photographer

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"He was referring to this image:

*The guy on the right was shot for murdering civilians. The photographer won Pulitzer prize for he image."

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Saigon Cholon Fighting (Short One)

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