This photo was taken by Eddie Adams in Saigon in 1968, a general shooting dead a Viet Cong suspect in the street, just after he was apprehended. Adams was awarded a Pulitzer prize for this shot.
We were discussing this just the other week in a presentation at college (HNC Photography): what legal or moral restrctions there might be if you wanted to shoot someone who was in a public place at the same time you were.
Ian Jack riffles through the arguments for and against, in his very short essay in the Guardian. It's at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/11/public-camera-video-technology
There's lots of coverage in the Easter Saturday issue, about the newspaper seller who died at the G20 protests here in London last week. I am glad that I had a chance to read Ian jack's comments. His insights are sound.
Enjoy.
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