DUNCAN, DAVID DOUGLAS

born Jan. 23, 1916, Kansas City, Mo., U.S. American photojournalist noted for his dramatic combat photography during the Korean War. After graduation in 1938 from the University of Miami, Duncan was a free-lance photographer. During World War II he served with the U.S. Marine Corps, photographing Marine Corps aviation in the Pacific. In 1946 he became a staff photographer for Life magazine. He covered the Korean War in 1950; his photographs, which later appeared in the book This Is War! (1951), conveyed the life of the ordinary soldier in telling terms. In 1955 Duncan resigned from Life and resumed free-lance work. His meeting with Pablo Picasso in 1956 resulted in an enduring interest in the artist's work reflected in Duncan's photographic essays The Private World of Pablo Picasso (1958), Picasso's Picassos (1961), Goodbye Picasso (1974), and The Silent Studio (1976). The Kremlin (1960) presented the history of Russia as seen through Kremlin art treasures. His autobiography, Yankee Nomad; A Pictorial Odyssey, was published in 1966. His pictures of the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions in 1968 appeared in Self-Portrait, U.S.A. (1969) and a selection of Vietnam war photographs in War Without Heroes (1971). Later experimental works were Prismatics: Exploring a New World (1973) and Magic Worlds of Fantasy (1978).