From the AP: 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 May 10, 2012. He was 79. Faas won one of his two Pulitzer Prizes for covering the war in Vietnam. In nearly half a century with the AP, he became one of the world’s legendary photojournalists. As chief of AP’s photo operations in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Faas covered the fighting while recruiting and training new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers. 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.”
In this undated file photo, Associated Press photographer Horst Faas is shown on assignment with soldiers in South Vietnam.
