Horst Faas

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Horst Faas (born April 27, 1933 in Berlin ; † May 10, 2012 in Munich ) was a German photographer and war correspondent .

Life

From 1951 initially working for the Keystone agency , he switched to the Associated Press in 1952 . He became famous for his reports from Vietnam from 1962 to 1974, practically during the entire Vietnam War . He has received several awards for his work during these years.

Among other things, Faas was responsible for the publication of the famous photo by photographer Nick Út from June 8, 1972, which shows 9-year-old Kim Phuc Phan Thi fleeing from a napalm attack on the village of Trảng Bàng - against the rules of AP .

In December 1967 he was seriously injured in both legs by shrapnel while on patrol and only narrowly escaped the fatal fate of many of his colleagues (e.g. Robert Capa ).

From 1976 to 2003 Faas was AP's chief photographer in London , responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Faas worked intensively on the photographers Larry Burrows , Henri Huet , Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto, who died in a helicopter crash in Laos on February 10, 1971 . Faas published the book Lost Over Laos about them . A true story of tragedy, mystery, and friendship and took part in the posthumous tribute at the Newseum , a museum for the history of journalism in Washington, DC, which opened in 2008. Together with Tim Page , Faas published the illustrated book Requiem as a homage in the 1990s 135 photographers on both sides who died in the Vietnam War.

Horst Faas contracted a severe infection at a correspondents' meeting in Hanoi in 2005 and has since been paralyzed from the waist down. According to other sources, his paralysis was caused by bleeding with the formation of a thrombus on the spine as a result of blood-thinning medication . After his health deteriorated in 2008, he had been in hospital since February 2012, where he died on May 10, 2012. Faas had lived in Munich since 2005. In 2008 he handed over his professional qualifications to the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences. There the estate has been scientifically processed since his death.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2005–2008: Visible War , traveling exhibition of the German Society for Photography in Frankfurt am Main, Nuremberg, Magdeburg and Düsseldorf.

Works

  • Horst Faas, Hélène Gédouin: Henri Huet: J'étais photographe de guerre au Viêtnam. Éditions du Chêne 2006, ISBN 2842776542 .
  • Horst Faas (Ed.): Requiem. By the photographers who died in Vietnam and Indochina. Random, New York 1997, ISBN 0-679-45657-0 .
  • Meinrad M. Grewenig (text), Horst Faas (photos): Moments of the Century. Travel Photography Masterpieces from Associated Press. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1999, ISBN 3-7757-0866-9 .
  • Hugh A. Mulligan (text), Horst Faas (photos): No place to die: the agony of Viet Nam. Morrow, New York 1967-
  • Richard Pyle (text), Horst Faas (photos): Lost Over Laos. A true story of tragedy, mystery, and friendship. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2003, ISBN 0-306-81196-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Pulitzer Prize winner: German war photographer Horst Faas is dead in Spiegel Online on May 11, 2012
  2. ^ Who made the war visible in the daily newspaper of May 11, 2012
  3. ↑ Vietnam Reporter: Four Dead and a Glass Grave in Spiegel Online from April 3, 2008
  4. ↑ Photographer Horst Faas is dead - war up close , with a picture from 1998 at the crash site
  5. ↑ Horst Fass Moves From Bangkok Hospital To A Rehabilitation Hospital In Germany ( Memento from May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), report from the National Press Photographers Association from June 2, 2005
  6. ↑ Horst Faas, legendary combat photographer, dies at 79 in USA Today of May 10, 2012
  7. ↑ a b War photographer Horst Faas is dead lock keeper of horror in Süddeutsche Zeitung on May 11, 2012
  8. ↑ Visible War at the German Society for Photography
  9. ↑ June 4 - July 17, 2005 in the International Photography Forum in Frankfurt am Main; September 21 - November 1, 2006 in the K4 cultural center in Nuremberg; January 16 - February 8, 2008 in the Moritzhof cultural center in Magdeburg; August 27 - September 14, 2008 in the main foyer of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf.
personal data
SURNAME Faas, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and war correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2012
Place of death Munich