biography
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Duncan, David Douglas
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| lived:
| (1916– )
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| biography:
| Photographer and writer, born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He studied at the University of Miami, Florida (1938), and became a photo-journalist, then spent some years abroad. During World War 2 he served with the US Marines as a combat photographer (1943–6), then joined Life magazine as a staff photographer (1946–56), becoming noted for his powerful pictures of soldiers in combat during the Korean War, published in his book This is War! (1951). He also worked on assignments in Israel, Greece, and Indochina. In 1966 he became a free-lance photographer and worked throughout the world, including a spell in Vietnam (1967–8) as a photo-correspondent for ABC-TV. A man of broad interests and friendships, he was particularly close to Pablo Picasso, the subject of six of Duncan's books. |
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