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Horst Faas was born on 28 April, 1933 in Berlin, Nazi Germany, is a Horst Faas was photo journalist. Discover Horst Faas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Occupation miscellaneous
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 28 April, 1933
Birthday 28 April
Birthplace Berlin, Nazi Germany
Date of death 10 May, 2012
Died Place Munich, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1933

Horst Faas (28 April 1933 – 10 May 2012) was a German photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.

He is best known for his images of the Vietnam War.

Horst Faas as born on 28 April 1933 in Berlin, which was then part of Nazi Germany.

1951

Faas began his photographic career in 1951 with the Keystone Agency, and by the age of 21 he was already covering major events concerning Indochina, including the peace negotiations in Geneva in 1954.

1956

In 1956 he joined the Associated Press (AP), where he acquired a reputation for being an unflinching hard-news war photographer, covering the wars in Vietnam and Laos, as well as in the Congo and Algeria.

1962

In 1962, he became AP's chief photographer for Southeast Asia, and was based in Saigon until 1974.

1965

His images of the Vietnam War won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1965.

On 18 June 1965, during the Vietnam War with the 173rd Airborne Brigade on defense duty at Phuoc Vinh airstrip in South Vietnam he took the iconic photo of a soldier wearing a hand lettered "War Is Hell" slogan on his helmet.

1967

In 1967 he was severely wounded in the legs by a rocket-propelled grenade.

1968

The notorious "Saigon Execution" photograph, showing the summary execution of a Viet Cong prisoner by Saigon police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, taken by Eddie Adams in Saigon on 1 February 1968, was sent under his direction.

Nick Ut's famous "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.

1972

In 1972, he collected a second Pulitzer, for his coverage of the 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.

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.

1976

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.

1990

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."