20 YEARS OF BARNSTORM:
THE EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP


Photographers Speak at The Eddie Adams Photojournalism Workshop
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Eddie Adams Photojournalism Workshop, selected talks by notable photojournalists and photo editors from the past 20 years are available. Introduction by Walter Anderson, CEO of Parade Magazine. Speakers include: Eddie Adams, Hal Buell, Jennifer Borg, Bill Eppridge, Tom Franklin, Peter Jennings, Louie Liotta, Tom Kennedy, David Hume Kennerly, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Maggie Steber, George Tames, Peter Turnley. Panelists include: Lee Kravitz, MaryAnne Golon, Maura Foley, Bill Waugh, Joe Elbert, Vicki Goldberg, Joe Rosenthal, John Filo, Lee Kravitz.

CARL MYDANS (13.11 min)
Carl Mydans speaks to students at The Eddie Adams Workshop October 1997 Eddie Adams introduces Carl Mydans at the 10th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 1997. Mydans speaks about three memorable photographs he did not take, but discovered 40 years after the fact and the unusual circumstances surrounding them: WWII photo by Sergeant Joe Smith processed years after the war of Japanese air attack on Clark AFB that nearly decimated the US Air Force presence in Asia; discovery of a 40-year-old photo taken by the Japanese of his wife Shelley during her internment at the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp Santa Tomas during WWII, discovery of a snap shot of himself and Shelley taken by a curious Chinese in 1941 who did not know what a camera was.

GORDON PARKS (23:04 min)
Gordon Parks speaks to students at The Eddie Adams Workshop October 1994. Gordon Parks overcame discrimination throughout his varied photographic career beginning first in 1942 in Washington DC as the first African American photographer at the Farm Securities Administration, at Vogue and then Life. Parks tells the story of his notable FSA image of a cleaning woman Ella Watson in front of an American flag with a mop in one hand and a broom in the other. The photo was too controversial to release at the time and Parks first saw the image in print years later in the Washington Post.

GEORGE TAMES (17.44 min)
George Tames speaks to students at The Eddie Adams Workshop October 1992 Walter Anderson introduces George Tames at the 5th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 1992. Tames begins by asking a rhetorical question, "Are events taking place when no one is there to photograph them? Of course they are". Tames recounts his experience photographing 50 years of the White House from president Roosevelt through Carter for the New York Times.

LOUIE LIOTTA (19:31 min)
Louie Liotta speaks to students at The Eddie Adams Workshop October 1993. Hal Buell introduces Louie Liotta at the 6th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 1993. Colorful Louie Liotta, a newsman from the day when carrier pigeons transported film from the stadium to the paper, speaks to the students about his 50-year newspaper career with a press card in his Fedora. Students laugh long and loud at his unapologetic attitude when he says, "Ya' gotta' be creative. Ya' talk, about ethics, ethics my _ss, get the picture, the picture they're gonna' run, the picture they're gonna' sell and they'll love ya' for it."

BILL EPPRIDGE (27:51 min)
Bill Eppridge speaks to students at 6th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 1993. (no intro in audio) Bill Eppridge was behind Bobby Kennedy for Life Magazine when he was assassinated in 1968 and captured the events that night into the next morning on three rolls of film. Eppridge talks about his reluctance to revisit the contact sheets 25 years later but at the urgings of friends revisits the contact sheets and discovers images that were never seen and never published. Eppridge decides to create a book to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Kennedy's death and recounts the tribulations of putting together a book on such a sensitive, important historic event.

PETER JENNINGS (30:13 min)
Peter Jennings speaks to students at the 17th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 2004. (no intro in audio) Peter Jennings speaks to students at the Workshop in October three weeks after Eddie Adams passed away. Jennings adopts the style of an interview with Eddie, playing both the parts of Eddie and himself as the interviewer. Jennings tells Eddie how much he appreciates Eddie taking him under his wing in Vietnam in 1965 when Jennings was "young and pretty and a dilettante" sent by ABC to gain experience. It is evident throughout the talk that Jennings admired Eddie and had a great deal of respect and understanding for photographers and the single image.

TOM KENNEDY (11:34 min)
Tom Kennedy speaks to students at the 4th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 1991. Hal Buell introduces Tom Kennedy at the 4th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 1991. Kennedy speaks at the closing of the Workshop in rapid-fire succession about the life long quest of successful photographers and their search to balance five obligations: their subjects, their employers, their readers, their family and themselves. Now, more then ever, he stresses the importance of photography as a vital tool of communication. His job is to clear the pathway for photographers to make images that need to be shared.

EDDIE ADAMS (14:36 min)
Eddie Adams speaks to students at the 4th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 1991. Adams covered numerous wars and refugee camps and speaks with empathy about the people he photographed in those situations and how deeply it affected him; how hard it was to be objective. He touches on several photographs from each decade spanning his career beginning in the 50s through the 90s. He was proud of the photos of The Boat People escaping from Vietnam that were shown to Congress and influenced the President to admit Vietnamese refugees into America. Adams says, "We can only hope that something good comes from our photos."

9/11 TOM FRANKLIN FLAG RAISING (11:38)
Hal Buell, Jennifer Borg and Tom Franklin speak to students at the 14th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 2001. Tom Franklin, a photographer for the Bergen Record, took the memorable photo at Ground Zero of the firemen raising the flag. Jennifer Borg, a lawyer for the paper speaks about the legal and ethical issues surrounding the photo and the thousands of requests the paper received to use the photos. Hal Buell comments on the historical context of the 9/11 flag raising and compares it to Joe Rosenthal's raising of the flag at Iwo Jima during WWII and the hopeful dignity of both photos.

WAR ON AMERICA (apx 30 min)
A panel of photo editors speaks about the events of 9/11 and how their publications chose photos to portray the day in pictures. Panelists include: Joe Elbert (Washington Post), Maura Foley (People Magazine), MaryAnn Golon (Time Magazine), Bill Wagh (Associated Press). Moderated by Tom Kennedy (Washingtonpost.com) and Lee Kravitz (Parade Magazine).

IMPACT OF A SINGLE PHOTO (apx 30 min)
A panel of photographers speaks to students at the 4th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 1991. Vickie Goldberg moderates a panel with photographers Eddie Adams, Joe Rosenthal, Carl Mydans, Bill Eppridge and John Filo about the lasting impact a single photograph can make. Vickie Goldberg prefaces the panel with a brief history of the beginnings of mass distribution of photography that allowed for worldwide circulation of photographs and press reels.

PETER TURNLEY (19:52 min)
Peter Turnley speaks to students at the 10th annual Eddie Adams Wroskhop October 1997. Hal Buell introduces Peter Turnley at the 10th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 1997. Turnley says, "There are two themes for me in photography. I am screaming about what I think is wrong and it's a way for me to confirm things I think are wonderful." Turnley talks about incidents in his career including being a photographer living in Paris right after the death of Princes Diana and the negative feelings towards photographers.

DAVID HUME KENNERLY (29:55 min)
David Kennerly speaks to students at the 10th annual Eddie Adams Workshop October 1997.