$7M archive of late Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photojournalist Eddie Adams given to U. of Texas
By APSaturday, September 19, 2009
U. of Texas gets AP photojournalist’s $7M archive
AUSTIN, Texas — The multimillion dollar archive of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams has been donated to the University of Texas.
Adams was known for his emblematic images of the Vietnam War and amassed hundreds of awards. He won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for an AP photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street.
The archive is valued between $7 million and $8 million.
University President William Powers Jr. said Adams’ widow, Alyssa Adams, donated the archive to the school’s Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. She retains the copyrights to the images.
Adams also worked for Time magazine and Parade magazine. He died in 2004 at age 71 from complications of Lou Gehrig’s disease.
