“I Killed The General With My Cameraâ€
“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?’”
I’ve written before about those words that Eddie Adams wrote in Time Magazine describing the photograph he took of General Nguyan Ngoc Loan summarily executing a captured Viet Cong. Eddie Adams, who died in 2004, regretted taking that picture and the damage he had done to a good man’s reputation.
Daniel Finkelstein at The Times Online Comment Central writes today about a revisionist myth again propagated by British televison.
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