Duncan, David Douglas (1916– )

US photographer and author. After serving with the US Marines as a World War II combat photographer, he joined Life magazine as a staff photographer. He was a photographer during the Korean War and, in Vietnam, he was an ABC-TV photo-correspondent.

He was born in Kansas City, Missouri and graduated from the University of Miami, Florida. He became especially well known for his powerful pictures of soldiers in combat during the Korean War and published them in his book, This is War! (1951). He also worked on assignments in Israel, Greece, and Indochina. In 1966 he became a freelance photographer and worked throughout the world. A man of broad interests and friendships, he was particularly close to Pablo Picasso, who was the subject of six of his books.