Легендарный военный фотограф Хорст Фаас

Хорст Фаас, почти полвека был проработавший в The Associated Press, обладатель двух Пулитцеровских премий, умер в четверг, 10 мая в Мюнхене в возрасте 79 лет.

Печальный факт – военные фотокорреспонденты становятся знаменитыми после смерти. Те, что погибают в бою, немедленно привлекают внимание СМИ, коллег и общественности. Звезда их славы сияет ярко, но недолго. Те, что умирают собственной смертью, удостаиваются лишь редких упоминаний в газетах.
Хорст Фаас был больше чем просто талантливым фотокорреспондентом. Известность он получил за свои фотографии с Вьетнамской войны, где в 1967 году был тяжело ранен . Именно за вьетнамские фото он и получил обе Пулитцеровских премии. Главный редактор в The Associated Press Кейтлин Кэролл вспоминает о нем так: ”Хорст был одним из величайших талантов нашего времени, храбрым фотографом и смелым редактором, которому принадлежат, возможно, самые знаменитые фото века. Он был незаменимым сотрудником и отличным другом”.

1. Хорст Фаас во Вьетнаме, 1967. (AP Photo)

2. Фаас подходит к вертолету после дня, проведенного с Рейнджерами на затопленном поле. (AP Photo)

3. Женщины и дети укрываются в канаве от огня вьетконговцев в Бао Трай, 20 миль к западу от Сайгона, 1 января 1966. (AP Photo)

4. Скрываясь в канале от огня вьетконговского снайпера, дети наблюдают за американским десантником с гранатометом М79. (AP Photo)

5. Южновьетнамская женщина рыдает над телом мужа, найденного вместе с еще 47 убитыми в массовом захоронении в Хью, Вьетнам, апрель 1969. (AP Photo)

6. Хорст Фаас с американскими солдатами в Южном Вьетнаме. (AP Photo)

7. Отец показывает вьетнамским рейнджерам тело ребенка, убитого во время преследования партизан правительственными войсками в деревне возле границы с Камбоджой, 19 марта 1964. (AP Photo)

8. Хорст Фаас в Ка Мау, Вьетнам. (AP Photo)

9. Фото из серии, за которую Фаас получил Пулитцеровскую премию: партизаны из Бангладеш в Дакке штыками закалывают мужчин, подозреваемых в сотрудничестве с пакистанскими ополченцами , которых обвиняли в мародерстве, убийствах и изнасилованиях во время гражданской войны. (AP Photo)

10. Лидер партизан из Бангладеш в Дакке избивает мужчину, подозреваемого в сотрудничестве с пакистанскими ополченцами , которых обвиняли в мародерстве, убийствах и изнасилованиях во время гражданской войны. (AP Photo)

11. Американские вертолеты ведут пулеметный огонь по лесу, прикрывая наступление Южновьетнамских войск на лагерь Вьетконга недалеко от камбоджийской границы. (AP Photo)

12. Вьетнамский мусорщик рядом с телами погибших в бою вьетнамских и американских солдат на каучуковой плантации Michelin, 45 миль к северо-востоку от Сайгона, 27 ноября 1965. (AP Photo)

13. Хорст Фаас в Южном Вьетнаме. (AP Photo)

14. Американские военнопленные в лагере в Ли Нам Де Стрит в Ханое, Северный Вьетнам, март 1973.

15. Место взрыва бомбы у посольства США в Сайгоне, 30 марта 1965 года. (AP Photo)

16. Мохаммед Али тренируется перед боем с Джорджем Форменом, октябрь 1974. (AP Photo)

17. Люди тянутся к представителю правительства, раздающему вяленую рыбу и пальмовое масло людям в больнице в Миаби, Конго, 26 января 1961. (AP Photo)

18. Больной и страдающий от голода ребенок в больнице Миаби, Конго, 26 января 1961. (AP Photo)

19. Мальчики из Молодежного движения провинции Шаба, Конго, тренируются с деревянными винтовками в Элизабетвилле. (AP Photo)

20. Мальчик с игрушечной винтовкой проходит мимо французских солдат в Оране, Алжир, 4 мая 1962. (AP Photo)

21. Анвар Садат и Ричард Никсон позируют для фотографии на фоне пирамид в Гизе, Египет, 14 июня 1974. (AP Photo)

22. Американские морпехи разбегаются от места крушения вертолета СН-46, сбитого недалеко от демилитаризованной зоны между Северным и Южным Вьетнамом, 15 июля 1966. (AP Photo)

23. Выжившие после двух дней тяжелых боев в Донг Хуо, мирные жители собираются вместе после атаки правительственных войск, июнь 1965. (AP Photo)

24. Хорст Фаас, бывший редактор и фотокорреспондент The Associated Press на выставке своих работ во время 20-го международного фестиваля фотожурналистики Visa pour l'Image во Франции, 5 сентября 2008. (AP Photo)

25. Солдаты южновьетнамских правительственных войск 2-го батальона 36-й пехотной дивизии спят в бронетранспортере США на пути к Ка Мау, Вьетнам, август 1962.

26. Южновьетнамский солдат бьет фермера рукояткой кинжала за то, что он дал неверную информацию правительственным войскам о перемещении вьетконговских партизанов, в деревне к западу от Сайгона, Вьетнам, 9 января 1964. Этот снимок был одним из тех, которые принесли Хорст Фаасу первую из двух его Пулитцеровских премий.

27. Южновьетнамские войска, к которым присоединились советники США, отдыхают после холодной, влажной и напряженной ночи ожидания в засаде атаки вьетконговцев, которые так и не пришли, в густых джунглях вокруг города Бинь Гия, в 60 км от Сайгона, Вьетнам, январь 1965.

28. Американские солдаты охраняют Маршрут 7, по которому вьетнамские женщины и дети возвращаются домой в деревню Сюань Дьен из Бен-Ката, Вьетнам, декабрь 1965.

29. Американского подполковника Джорджа Истера переносят на носилках после того, как его ранил вьетконговский снайпер в Чунг-Лапе, Южный Вьетнам, 16 января 1966.

30. Американские морские пехотинцы отбегают от горящего вертолета, который был сбит вьетконговцами, вблизи демилитаризованной зоны между Северным и Южным Вьетнамом, 15 июля 1966.

31. Раненые американские солдаты на поле боя во Вьетнаме, 2 апреля 1967.

32. Тело убитого американского солдата на поле боя во Вьетнаме, 2 апреля 1967.

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A U.S. crewman runs from a crashed CH-21 Shawnee troop helicopter near the village of Ca Mau in the southern tip of South Vietnam, Dec. 11, 1962. Two helicopters crashed without serious injuries during a government raid on the Viet Cong-infiltrated area. Both helicopters were destroyed to keep them out of enemy hands. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A U.S. infantryman from A Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry carries a crying child from Cam Xe village after dropping a phosphorous grenade into a bunker cleared of civilians during an operation near the Michelin rubber plantation northwest of Saigon, August 22, 1966. A platoon of the 1st Infantry Division raided the village, looking for snipers that had inflicted casualties on the platoon. GIs rushed about 40 civilians out of the village before artillery bombardment ensued. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

U.S. paratroopers send a burst of automatic weapon fire into the Vietnamese section of Plei Ho Drong on August 12, 1965 after someone shot at them. Troops who entered the village afterwards found only Montagnard tribesmen and no Viet Cong. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Spec. 4 James D. McClafferty of Philadelphia and Pfc. Ted Talley of Marked Tree, Ark., man a machine gun in the ruins of a house near Rach Kien, 22 miles southwest of Saigon, Jan. 2, 1966. Their company, operating in the delta province of Long An, came under fire when they approached a farmhouse at the edge of an abandoned town. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A South Vietnamese soldier holds a cocked pistol as he questions two suspected Viet Cong guerrillas captured in a weed-filled marsh in the southern delta region late in August 1962. The prisoners were searched, bound and questioned before being marched off to join other detainees. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Paratroopers jump off rubber rafts in a combat crossing of the Song Be River in D Zone, some 30 miles northeast of Saigon, Vietnam on Sept. 30, 1966. The 173rd Airborne Brigade began Operation Sioux City with several helicopter assaults. Boats followed the troops and an hour later a company of the 2nd Battalion/173rd Airborne Brigade headed north across the 150 feet wide, fast flowing river, in rubber boats with outboard engines under cover of machine guns and air strikes. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Flying low over the jungle, an A-1 Skyraider drops 500-pound bombs on a Viet Cong position below as smoke rises from a previous pass at the target, Dec. 26, 1964. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A U.S. infantryman of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade is seen on a joint Vietnamese/U.S. patrol near coffee and rubber plantations 50 miles northeast of Saigon, Nov. 29, 1969. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A South Vietnamese Marine, severely wounded in a Viet Cong ambush, is comforted by a comrade in a sugar cane field at Duc Hoa, about 12 miles from Saigon, Aug. 5, 1963. A platoon of 30 Vietnamese Marines was searching for communist guerrillas when a long burst of automatic fire killed one Marine and wounded four others. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A U.S. Marine CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter comes down in flames after being hit by enemy ground fire during Operation Hastings, just south of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam, July 15, 1966. The helicopter crashed and exploded on a hill, killing one crewman and 12 Marines. Three crewman escaped with serious burns. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

An American advised patrol plods through the Vietnamese jungle on June 27, 1964. Supplies and some of its personnel aboard the powerful, plodding elephants which are a form of native transport dating back centuries to Hannibal during the First Punic War.(AP Photo/Horst Faas)

South Vietnamese soldiers ride elephants across a river in the Ba Don area, about 20 miles from the Cambodian border, during a patrol in search of Viet Cong guerrillas in June 1964. In some conditions, the Hannibal-like transportation is more suited to jungle warfare than more modern vehicles. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

An American advised patrol plods through the Vietnamese jungle on June 27, 1964. Supplies and some of its personnel aboard the powerful, plodding elephants which are a form of native transport dating back centuries to Hannibal during the First Punic War.(AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Soldiers of the 28th Infantry's 1st Battalion scramble for cover as Viet Cong guerrillas open fire from concealed tunnels in an enemy stronghold 25 miles northwest of Saigon, Jan. 9, 1966. The unit, part of Operation Crimp, a massive allied assault, had just settled down for lunch when the Viet Cong attacked. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A wounded Vietnamese ranger, his head heavily bandaged with only slits for the eyes and mouth, is ready with his weapon to answer a Viet Cong attack during battle in Dong Xoai on June 11, 1965. Photo by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, who accompanied the rangers on the battle mission. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Children ride home from school past the bodies of 15 dead Viet Cong soldiers and their commander in the village of An Ninh in Vietnam's Hau Nghia province on May 8, 1972. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

In this April 2, 1967 photo, a wounded U.S. soldier is given water on a battlefield in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

As South vietnamese troops pass by in the Ca Mau peninsula, a mother grieves over her daughter, who was badly wounded by machine gun fire from a U.S. helicopter, the week of Sept. 15, 1963. The soldiers had landed by helicopter in response to an attack by Viet Cong guerrillas on a South Vietnamese outpost. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A U.S. Marine listens for the heartbeat of a dying buddy who suffered head wounds when the company's lead platoon was hit with enemy machine gun fire as they pushed through a rice paddy just short of the demilitarized zone in South Vietnam Sept. 17, 1966. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

U.S. soldiers are on the search for Viet Cong hideouts in a swampy jungle creek bed, June 6, 1965, at Chutes de Trian, some 40 miles northeast of Saigon, South Vietnam. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

An amphibious tracked vehicle with a load of fully-armed Marines approaches a river southwest of Danang, South Vietnam, Aug. 22, 1969. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Pfc. James F. Duro of Boston, Mass., a member of C Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade, lies exhausted on a canal dike in the swampland of the Mekong Delta near Bao Trai, about 20 miles west of Saigon, on Jan. 4, 1966. Duro survived friendly fire from a misdirected artillery bombardment that, in addition to enemy fire, left fellow soldiers dead and wounded. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A Vietnamese medic jumps from a secure position behind a rice paddy dike, crossing a swampy paddy under fire from Viet Cong guerrillas in Binh Dong province along a canal on the edge of the Plain of Reeds, Aug. 8, 1966. He was coming to the aid of wounded regional forces in a skirmish between the Viet Cong and a company of "ruff-puffs," (regional forces and popular forces). (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A U.S. Marine wipes tears from his face as he kneels beside a body wrapped in a poncho during a firefight near the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam, Sept. 18, 1966. Other casualties lie at the side of the road as fighting continued. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Medics rush Lt. Col. George Eyster on a stretcher toward a helicopter after he had been shot by a Viet Cong sniper at Trung Lap, South Vietnam, Jan. 16, 1966. Eyster, 43, of Florida and commander of the "Black Lions" battalion of the U.S. 1st Division, died 42 hours later in a Bien Hoa hospital. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

In this Jan. 16, 1966 photo, Lt. Col. George Eyster of Florida is placed on a stretcher after being shot by a Viet Cong sniper at Trung Lap, South Vietnam. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, File)

U.S. door gunners in H-21 Shawnee gunships look for a suspected Viet Cong guerrilla who ran to a foxhole from the sampan on the Mekong Delta river bank, Jan. 17, 1964. The U.S. provided air support during a South Vietnamese offensive in the Mekong Delta. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A Vietnamese infantryman jumps from the protection of a rice paddy dike for another short charge during a run and fire assault on Viet Cong Guerrillas entrenched in an area 15 miles west of Saigon on April 4, 1965. When field and surrounding brush line was finally taken, Vietnamese had suffered a loss of 12 men dead or wounded, Straw stack fire at center was set by Guerrillas as a distraction. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

U.S. infantrymen pray in the Vietnamese jungle Dec. 9, 1965 during memorial services for comrades killed in the battle of the Michelin rubber plantation, 45 miles northwest of Saigon. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Empty artillery cartridges pile up at the artillery base at Soui Da, some 60 miles northwest of Saigon, at the southern edge of War Zone C, on March 8, 1967. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

U.S. Marines run to their foxholes as North Vietnamese mortars begin zeroing in on their positions during Operation Hastings near the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam on July 17, 1966. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into tree line to cover the advance of Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh on March 29, 1965, which is northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border. Combined assault routed Viet Cong guerrilla force. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Trying to avoid intense sniper fire, two American medics carry a wounded paratrooper to an evacuation helicopter during the Vietnam War on June 24, 1965. A company of paratroopers dropped directly into a Viet Cong staging area in the jungle near Thoung Lang, Vietnam. The medics are, Gerald Levy, left, of New York; and PFC Andre G. Brown of Chicago. The wounded soldier is not identified. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Vietnamese government troops are silhouetted against palm tree and jungle background as they cross a wooden bridge en route to the village of Ap Ba Nam, deep in southern Camau province on August 24, 1963, during a 5-day mission against Communists. The mission, which ended on August 20, was accomplished by about 4,000 government troops. The area south, east, and west of Camau province is a Viet Cong stronghold. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A young South Vietnamese woman covers her mouth as she stares into a mass grave where victims of a reported Viet Cong massacre were being exhumed near Dien Bai village, east of Hue, in April 1969. The woman's husband, father and brother had been missing since the Tet Offensive, and were feared to be among those killed by Communist forces. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

U.S. machine gunner Spc. 4 James R. Pointer, left, of Cedartown, Ga., and Pfc. Herald Spracklen of Effingham, Ill., peer from the brush of an overgrown rubber plantation near the Special Forces camp at Bu Dop during a half hour firefight, Dec. 5, 1967. Their company-size patrol avoided an ambush when a patrol dog alerted the unit to the presence of enemy forces. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

With a few salvaged belongings in the background, a Vietnamese woman carries a baby and pulls her daughter away as their home erupts in flames in July 1963. The woman and children may have been left behind so as not to slow other villagers escaping into the jungle. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

In this Jan. 9, 1964 photo, a South Vietnamese soldier uses the end of a dagger to beat a farmer for allegedly supplying government troops with inaccurate
information about the movement of Viet Cong guerrillas in a village west of Saigon, Vietnam. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

A wounded U.S. soldier is removed for treatment in Vietnam, April 2, 1967. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

Seriously injured by shrapnel grenades planted in a booby trapped Viet Cong propaganda stall, a U.S. soldier awaits evacuation from Vietnamese jungle by ambulance helicopter being summoned by a radio operator behind him on Dec. 5, 1965. The soldier was attempting to tear down a Viet Cong bamboo structure used to dispense propaganda when two M 79 grenades planted in one of the poles exploded in his face. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

As U.S. "Eagle Flight" helicopters hover overhead, South Vietnamese troops wade through a rice paddy in Long An province during operations against Viet Cong guerrillas in the Mekong Delta, December 1964. The "Eagle Flight" choppers were loaded with Vietnamese airborne troops who were dropped in to support ground forces at the first sign of enemy contact. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)

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