Tag: Horst Faas
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We’re Just Sayin: Fifty Years On…
Fifty Years On… I stumble a bit, me, the former Math major, when I try and do the ‘math.’ Last fall was fifty years: I arrived in Vietnam in October 1… Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2021/02/fifty-years-on.html When I told John I was heading to Vietnam, he said to me… “do a story for me – …
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Horst Faas, War Photographer, Is Dead at 79
Parting Glance: Horst Faas Horst Faas, a prizewinning combat photographer with The Associated Press for nearly a half-century, died on Thursday. He was 79. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/a-parting-glance-horst-faas/?pagewanted=all Mr. Faas was a brilliant planner, able to score journalistic scoops by anticipating “not just what happens next, but what happens after that,” as one colleague put…
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Horst Faas by Richard Pyle
Link: As chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn’t just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers.
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The Man Who Shot Vietnam – The New York Times
Opinion | The Man Who Shot Vietnam Horst Faas defined a new breed of war photographer. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/opinion/the-man-who-shot-vietnam.html Horst Faas defined a new breed of war photographer.
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R.I.P. Horst Faas
R.I.P. Horst Faas This past Thursday marked the passing of Horst Faas. Probably as much as about anyone since Capa, he was someone whose mere mention of … Link: http://werejustsayin.blogspot.com/2012/05/rip-horst-faas.html This past Thursday marked the passing of Horst Faas. Probably as much as about anyone since Capa, he was someone whose mere mention of a…
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Horst Faas, AP Photographer Who Brought World Compelling Images Of Vietnam, Dies At 79
Link: NPPA Horst Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press, died Thursday. He was 79
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What the Still Photo Still Does Best – NYTimes.com
What the Still Photo Still Does Best Thoughts on the enduring power of photojournalism — and on the death of Charles Moore, one of its great practitioners. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/weekinreview/21klibanoff.html?partner=rss&emc=rss The unsettling images from civil rights battlegrounds, followed closely by the disturbing images from Vietnam battlefields by Horst Faas, Eddie Adams, Nick Ut and others, created…