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Horst Faas

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Horst Faas (28 April 1933 – 10 May 2012) was a German photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. [1]

27 relations: Associated Press, Bangladesh Liberation War, David Halberstam, Dr. Erich Salomon Award, Eddie Adams (photographer), Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém, Greg Marinovich, Indochina, Johannesburg, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Nick Ut, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Photojournalism, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Photography, Rashid Talukder, Richard Pyle, Robert Capa Gold Medal, Rocket-propelled grenade, The Daily Telegraph, The Washington Post, Tim Page (photographer), Vietnam War, War photography, 1954 Geneva Conference, 1965 Pulitzer Prize, 1972 Pulitzer Prize.

Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bangladesh Liberation War

The Bangladesh Liberation War (মুক্তিযুদ্ধ), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in what was then East Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.

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David Halberstam

David Halberstam (April 10, 1934April 23, 2007) was an American journalist and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and later, sports journalism.

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Dr. Erich Salomon Award

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Eddie Adams (photographer)

Eddie Adams (June 12, 1933 – September 18, 2004) was an American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and for coverage of 13 wars.

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Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém

Nguyễn Văn Lém (1931 or 1932 – 1 February 1968) was summarily executed because of his admitted war crimes and guerrilla activity during the Vietnam War.

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Greg Marinovich

Greg Marinovich (born Gregory Sebastian Marinovich, December 8, 1962) is a South African photojournalist, filmmaker, photo editor, and member of the Bang-Bang Club.

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Indochina

Indochina, originally Indo-China, is a geographical term originating in the early nineteenth century and referring to the continental portion of the region now known as Southeast Asia.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

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Nguyễn Ngọc Loan

Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (11 December 193014 July 1998) was South Vietnam's chief of National Police.

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Nick Ut

Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951) is a Vietnamese American photographer for the Associated Press (AP) who works out of Los Angeles.

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Phan Thi Kim Phuc

Phan Thị Kim Phúc (born April 2, 1963), referenced informally as the Napalm girl, is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the nine-year-old child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken at Trảng Bàng during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972.

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Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that employs images in order to tell a news story.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pulitzer Prize for Photography

The Pulitzer Prize for Photography was one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism.

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Rashid Talukder

Rashid Talukder (রশীদ তালুকদার; 24 October 1939 – 25 October 2011) was a noted Bangladeshi photojournalist for The Daily Ittefaq, most known for capturing some of the defining images of the atrocities during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

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Richard Pyle

Richard Lawrence Pyle, Ph.D. is a scuba diver and ichthyologist working on Hawaii.

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Robert Capa Gold Medal

The Robert Capa Gold Medal is an award for "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise".

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Rocket-propelled grenade

A rocket-propelled grenade (often abbreviated RPG) is a shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon system that fires rockets equipped with an explosive warhead.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Tim Page (photographer)

Tim Page (born 25 May 1944) is an English photographer who made his name during the Vietnam War and is now based in Brisbane, Australia.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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War photography

War photography involves photographing armed conflict and its effects on people and places.

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1954 Geneva Conference

The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 – July 20, 1954.

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1965 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1965.

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1972 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1972.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Faas

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