Eddie Adams had been a combat photographer in the US marine corps. One of my most well known photographs is one called "The Execution". This was a picture of a man who at first glance looks as though he was being interrogated but in reality he had just been shot and the photograph was shot at the exact time the bullet entered his head.
There was also a video of this event but it doesn't have the same impact as it happens really quick whereas the photograph is a still shot of the event just as it happened. The image is burnt into the mind of the person looking at it and it shows the look on the man's face as he is shot.
You can see the look of the soldier's face as he flinches at the sight of this man being shot and also the lack of expression that the man with the gun has. with the video you can't see these expressions as it all happens too quickly but the image allows people to see what happened at that moment and whoever is looking at the image can see all the expressions of the people in the image.
The Photograph allows people to look deeper at what is going on and the feelings that could be running through the minds of all the people in the photograph.
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