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Horst Faas (28 April 1933 – 10 May 2012) was a

photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He is best known for his images of the Vietnam War.[1]

Life

Born in Berlin, Germany, Faas began his photographic career in 1951 with the Keystone Agency, and by the age of 21 he was already covering major events concerning

conflict in Bangladesh. Inside Bangladesh, photographer Rashid Talukder considered it too dangerous to publish his photographs and he released them more than twenty years after Horst's photographs had appeared.[2]

Faas is also famed for his work as a picture editor, and was instrumental in ensuring the publication of two of the most famous images of the Vietnam War. The notorious "

Napalm Girl
" photograph caused a huge controversy over at the AP bureau; an editor had objected to the photo, saying that the girl depicted was naked and that nobody would accept it. Faas ordered that Ut's photo be sent over the wire.

In September 1990, freelance photographer Greg Marinovich submitted a series of graphic photos of a crowd executing a man to the AP bureau in Johannesburg. Once again, AP editors were uncertain if the photos should be sent over the wire. One editor sent the images to Faas, who telegrammed back, "send all photos."[3]

In 1976, Faas moved to London as AP's senior photo editor for Europe; he retired in 2004. In retirement he organised reunions of the wartime Saigon press corps and ran international photojournalism symposiums.

He produced four books on his career and other news photographers, including Requiem, a book about photographers killed on both sides of the Vietnam War, co-edited with fellow Vietnam War photojournalist Tim Page.[4]

Awards

  • 1965: Pulitzer Prize (Photography): "For his combat photography of the war in South Viet Nam during 1964."[5]
  • 1964: Robert Capa Gold Medal for his "Coverage of Vietnam"
  • 1972: Pulitzer-Prize (Spot News Photography) together with Michel Laurent: "For their picture series, 'Death in Dacca.'"[5]
  • 1997: Robert Capa Gold Medal together with Tim Page: "Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina"
  • 2005:
    Dr. Erich Salomon Prize
    of the German Society of Photography for his lifetime achievement

References

  1. ^ "Horst Faas, AP photographer who brought world compelling images of Vietnam, dies at age 79". The Washington Post. Associated Press. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2012-05-11.
  2. ^ "Images of Independence, Finally Free". New York Times, Lens. December 5, 201.
  3. ISBN 978-0-465-04413-9
    .
  4. ^ "Horst Faas: Horst Faas, who has died aged 79, was an award-winning photographer best known for his arresting images of the Vietnam War". The Daily Telegraph. May 11, 2012.
  5. ^ a b [1] http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1965

Further reading

ISBN 0-306-81196-0. – David Halberstam
introduces the book.

External links
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Horst_Faas&oldid=809059116"