Tribute to Eddie Adams

My friend Eddie Adams died last month from ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at his home in New York...

I first heard about Eddie Adams in November 1962...

Great photographs are created not through a camera but in the photographer's heart and soul.

The first time I met Eddie was at a party for David Cohen, one of the creators of "A Day in the Life" projects.

I was in New York for about a year when, in 1980, Time photographer Ted Thai introduced me to Eddie Adams.

Editing film could be a dreary business, but on that day, 36 years ago - the second day of the communist attacks into the very centers of South Vietnam's cities - I felt as though I had won the jackpot of a lottery.

Photojournalist Eddie Adams never just walked into a room, he made an entrance...

I was there that afternoon in 1988 when the eager young photojournalists descended on Eddie's farm in upstate New York for the first weekend of the Eddie Adams Workshop.

I met Eddie Adams at the Saigon bureau of the Associated Press before Christmas of 1965.

The outer door swings open and with all his usual enthusiasm, Eddie Adams of the AP, our next-door neighbor in the Eden Building, cameras hanging everywhere from his neck, bursts into the office and asks where we are going.

When John Durniak took over the photo department of Time magazine, the first three photographers he put under contract were Dirck Halstead, Eddie Adams and myself.

When Eddie Adams' obituary was written, it failed to mention one survivor: his "brother," Nick Ut.