Photographer Horst Faas – a career in pictures

Vietnam, 1967: Faas was a prize-winning photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera Photograph: AP

January 1961: Scores of eager hands reach towards a Congolese official distributing small rations of dried fish and palm oil to people at the hospital in Miabi, South Kasai Photograph: Horst Faas/AP

January 1961: A sick and hungry Baluba child is photographed at the Miabi hospital in South Kasai, Congo Photograph: Horst Faas/AP

March, 1964: This photo, which earned Faas the first of two Pulitzer prizes, shows a father holding the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armoured vehicle. The child was killed as government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border Photograph: Horst Faas/AP

November 1965: A Vietnamese litter bearer covers his face to keep out the smell as he passes the bodies of US and Vietnamese soldiers killed while fighting the Viet Cong at the Michelin rubber plantation, 45 miles north-east of Saigon Photograph: Horst Faas/AP

March 1965: Hovering US army helicopters fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border Photograph: Horst Faas/AP

January 1965: The sun breaks through dense jungle foliage around the embattled town of Binh Gia, 40 miles east of Saigon, as South Vietnamese troops, joined by US advisers, rest after a cold, damp and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that didn't come Photograph: Horst Faas/AP

April 1969: A South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue Photograph: Horst Faas/AP

July, 1966: US Marines scatter as a CH-46 helicopter burns (background) after being shot down near the demilitarised zone between North and South Vietnam Photograph: Horst Faas/AP

January 1966: Women and children take cover in a muddy canal from intense Viet Cong fire at Bao Trai, about 20 miles west of Saigon Photograph: Horst Faas/AP

March, 1965: Injured Vietnamese people receive aid as they lie on the street after a bomb explosion outside the US embassy in Saigon Photograph: Horst Faas/AP

May, 1965: Faas tries to get back on a US helicopter after a day out with Vietnamese rangers in a flooded plain of reeds Photograph: AP