Horst Faas
Horst Faas
Horst Faaswas a German photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He is best known for his images of the Vietnam War...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth28 April 1933
CountryGermany
bad cameras fish mind pictures quotes tackling weather
When you're out in the military situation, you can't take pictures at night because flashlights. So at night and in bad weather and in dark weather, the cameras went into the fish tackling box, which was waterproof, and I would just use my mind and try to keep quotes there and write down little stories.
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A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture.
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War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.
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Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.