VEVEY, SWITZERLAND.-German photographer Horst Tappe famous for portraits of Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso and Alfred Hitchcock, 67, died on August 21. He was also famous for portraits of Vladimir Nabokov, Salman Rushdie, Oskar Kokoschka, playwright Noel Coward, novelists Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Georges Simenon and Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Horst Tappe was born in Westphalia, Germany on May 13, 1938. Horst Tappe studied photography in Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main. In 1965 he settled in Montreux. In 1962 he became a friend of Nabokov. Nabokov allowed him to photograph him for over 15 years.