It was the shot seen ’round the world. Eddie Adams’ 1968 photo of a Saigon police chief executing a Viet Cong with a point-blank pistol took 1/500th of a second to snap. It took a little longer for its impact to begin the end of the Vietnam War. Susan Morgan Cooper’s excellent, dramatically gripping documentary examines Adams as a tormented egomaniac, equal parts journalist-for-hire and artist-extraordinaire with a camera. (Read more…)
Now playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago.