Opis
A wonderful collection of photographs of Pablo Picasso’s life and art, taken by his friend and award-winning photojournalist David Douglas Duncan. Published in 1974.
David Douglas Duncan (January 23, 1916 – June 7, 2018) was an American photojournalist, known for his dramatic combat photographs, as well as for his extensive domestic photography of Pablo Picasso and his wife Jacqueline.
His career as a photojournalist began when he took photographs of a hotel fire in Tucson, Arizona, while he was then studying archaeology at nearby University of Arizona. His photos included one of a hotel guest who made repeated attempts to go back into the burning building for his suitcase. That photo proved to be newsworthy when the guest turned out to have been notorious bank robber John Dillinger and the suitcase to have contained the proceeds of a bank robbery in which he had shot a police officer. Unfortunately, after the film was turned over to the Tucson Citizen, it was lost forever, and the photos were never printed. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Duncan joined the Marine Corps, earned an officer’s commission, and became a combat photographer. Duncan’s wartime photographs were so impressive that after the war he was hired by Life to join its staff at the urging of J.R. Eyerman, Life chief photographer.
Aside from his combat photographs, Duncan is also known for his photographs taken informally at the homes of Pablo Picasso and his second wife Jacqueline Roque, initiated in 1956 on the suggestion of fellow photographer Robert Capa.[5] He published seven books of photographs of Picasso in all. Duncan became a close friend of Picasso and was the only person allowed to photograph many of Picasso’s private paintings. Duncan lived in Castellaras, France, close to Mougins, where Picasso spent the last 12 years of his life.
