EDDIE ADAMS (1933–2004)
Execution of the Vietcong Nguyễn Văn Văn Lém / Portrait of the photographer, Saigon 1968

Start price: €1.800

Estimate: € 3.000-3.500

Press silver wire print on single-weight glossy paper

15,2 x 22,9 cm

Typographic text above the images, the photographer Edward T. Adams on the right side of the print. Date stamp “FILED NOV 15 1968” on the reverse.

The police chief of Saigon, General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, shot Vietcong-member Nguyễn Văn Lém in front of Photographer Edward Adams from the Associated Press. He received an award for this icon of uninhibited brutality under the conditions of war.