Life magazine 1968 picasso biography
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David Douglas Duncan reviewing a contact sheet from one of his assignments from the Korean War. (Photo by Gjon Milil /The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation)
As an 18-year-old at the University of Arizona, David Douglas Duncan (1916-2018) raced with his 39-cent Bakelite camera to a hotel fire and took a photo of a man desperately rescuing a suitcase from the blaze.
The next day he read that the man was John Dillinger. The episode became for Duncan “the most significant single move of my life,” and helped create one of the century’s foremost photojournalists.
Life magazine 1968 picasso biography
His oeuvre covers a great range of subjects, but it is his war photography and his monumental study of Pablo Picasso that ensure his reputation. Duncan joined the Marines in World War II; he was on the USS Missouri to record the Japanese surrender.
He became the signature photographer of the Korean War, and produced a stunning book on Vietnam calledI Protest. “I wanted to show the way men