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
great major shot time
Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.
capture fear flying genuine photograph war
War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.
backwards both camera
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.
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.
war mistake stupid
I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when people were confused and scared and courageous and stupid and showed all these things. When you look at people right at the very moment of truth, everything is quite human. You take a picture at this moment with all the mistakes in it, with everything that might be confusing to the reader, but that's the right combat photo.
heart expression people
I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.