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...photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1968 image of a handcuffed Viet Cong captive shot at point-blank range by a South Vietnamese police chief on a Saigon street during the Vietnam War; of Lou Gehrig's disease; in New York City. As a teenager in New Kensington, Pa., he charged $20 to shoot weddings and went on to cover 13 wars for such news outlets as the Associated Press, LIFE magazine and Parade. He also took moving portraits, many of them black and white, of world leaders, activists and entertainers, but he was forever haunted...
...plays . DIED. EDDIE ADAMS, 71, photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1968 image of a Viet Cong captive shot at point-blank range by a South Vietnamese police chief on a Saigon street during the Vietnam War; in New York City. As a teenager in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, he charged $20 to shoot weddings and went on to cover 13 wars for such news outlets as the Associated Press, Life magazine and Parade. He also took moving, often black-and-white portraits of world leaders, activists and entertainers, but he was forever haunted by his iconic Vietnam photo...
...think you have wardrobe issues? Imagine you're Queen Elizabeth-what do you wear to meet the Pope or Marilyn Monroe? For an easy answer, check out "The Queen's Working Wardrobe: Memories of Royal Occasions 1945-1972," which is on display at Kensington Palace in London through July, 2005. The exhibition features 12 couture outfits worn by Queen Elizabeth II and celebrates Her Majesty's diverse and sometimes quirky style, from the somewhat drab Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform she wore during World War II to the glamorous black velvet evening gown she wore to the opening of The Battle...
...than these imagined landscapes. I spent my time strolling around the secretive gardens of Westminster, pressing my camera against the iron of Buckingham Palace, throwing my lanky frame around an exorbitant mega-disco, spinning dumbly at the continuous vroom of oblivious Ferraris. A few years ago, staring despondently across Kensington Gardens through a late spring haze, I found myself looking into the far reaches of the old, overgrown empire—fertile Punjab farms, the plains of Kenya, the plantations of Virginia. The finished postcard canvas was cold and foreboding: Ferraris and investment banks and high manners alongside Wordsworth?...
Cuevas and Correa both belonged to a large circle of family and friends who live near Philadelphia's gritty Kensington neighborhood. On Jan. 24, 2004, Cuevas, Correa and a girl Correa claimed was her daughter, Aaliyah Hernandez, were together at a birthday party that Evelyn Vera, Pedro's sister, was throwing for her granddaughter. Cuevas says Evelyn brought Aaliyah over to her and said, "Isn't Carolyn's daughter beautiful? She's not your baby." This out-of-the-blue comment deepened suspicions Cuevas had always had about Correa's role in the disappearance of her baby; Correa...