'He brought forth some of the most searing images of the 20th century': Death of the photographer whose pictures defined the Vietnam War
[size=1.2em]Horst Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who set new standards for covering war with a camera, has died aged 79.[size=1.2em]
[size=1.2em]The German, who joined US-based news agency The Associated Press (AP) in 1956, photographed wars, revolutions and Olympic Games.[size=1.2em]
[size=1.2em]But he was best known for covering Vietnam, where he was severely wounded in 1967 and won four major photo awards including the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes.[size=1.2em]
Combat zone: US Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into a tree line to cover an advance by South Vietnamese troops in this March 1965 photo by Horst Faas
[size=1.2em]As chief of AP's photo operations in Saigon for a decade starting in 1962, Faas covered the fighting while recruiting and training new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers.
[size=1.2em]The result was 'Horst's army' of young photographers, who fanned out with Faas-supplied cameras and film and stern orders to 'come back with good pictures'.
[size=1.2em]Faas and his editors chose the best and put together a steady flow of telling photos - South Vietnam's soldiers fighting and its civilians struggling to survive amid the maelstrom.[size=1.2em]
Captivating: Women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from Vietcong fire at Bao Trai, 20 miles west of Saigon, Vietnam. The January 1, 1966 image is another captured by Horst Faas
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