Veteran AP war photographer Horst Faas dies

The award-winning Associated Press war photographer Horst Faas has died, at the age of 79.

The German photojournalist joined the global news agency in 1956 and started reporting from the Congo and Algeria. However, he was best known for his coverage of Vietnam over a decade from 1962, which won him four major awards including a Pulitzer prize.

Faas was praised for his training skills, recruiting an "army" of young photographers while in Vietnam.

He relocated to London in the mid-1970s where he worked as AP's senior photo editor for Europe until his retirement in 2004. In later years, he ran a series of international photojournalism conferences and organised reunions for wartime Saigon correspondents.

AP said in an obituary: "Faas was a brilliant planner, able to score journalistic scoops by anticipating not just what happens next but what happens after that."

The MSNBC photo blog has a selection of some of his work.

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