Duncan, David Douglas

Duncan, David Douglas

(born Jan. 23, 1916, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.) U.S. photojournalist. After graduating from college, he became a freelance photographer. In 1946 he joined the staff of Life magazine and covered the Korean War (1950); his photographs depicting the life of the ordinary soldier were published in This Is War! (1951). Resuming his freelance life, in 1956 he met Pablo Picasso, with whom he became fast friends; Duncan later published several photographic essays on Picasso's works, including The Private World of Pablo Picasso (1958) and Picasso's Picassos (1961).

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Duncan, David Douglas (1916–  ) photographer, author; born in Kansas City, Mo. After graduating from the University of Miami (Fla.) (1938), he became a photojournalist and then spent some years abroad. During World War II he served with the U.S. Marines as a combat photographer (1943–46), then joined Life magazine as a staff photographer (1946–56); he became especially well known for his powerful pictures of soldiers in combat during the Korean War and 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; from 1967 to 1968 he was in Vietnam 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.