David Douglas Duncan, photographer, has died at 102
June 10, 2018 4:12 AM   Subscribe

 
Here's a good military-oriented article on him: Stripes on DDD
posted by MovableBookLady at 5:43 AM on June 10, 2018


DDD = David Douglas Duncan, famed war photographer.
posted by MovableBookLady at 5:52 AM on June 10, 2018



posted by Katjusa Roquette at 5:54 AM on June 10, 2018


I'm glad to know about Duncan; thanks for the post. But as a point of MeFi etiquette, it's important not to put any vital information in the title, since lots of people have titles turned off and don't see them. Use the title for jokes/quotes/etc.—stuff that it doesn't matter whether people see it or not. Put the vital info (e.g., X died) in the text of the post itself (preferably at the start).
posted by languagehat at 9:00 AM on June 10, 2018 [2 favorites]


languagehat: you're the second person today who's told me about titles not being important (in re this post). I had no idea that titles could even be turned off. Now that I know MeFi is different, I won't be making that mistake again.
posted by MovableBookLady at 12:41 PM on June 10, 2018


From his webpage:
"One morning late in the spring of 1961, while photographing Picasso's private collection of his own work . . . I came upon a gaunt self-portrait of the artist. It was just stark charcoal on canvas, almost skeletal, nearly life-size, dated 22 March, 1938, and totally unknown . . . Like nearly all of Picasso's hidden canvases, it was veiled under decades of dust that had to be cleaned away before I could use my color cameras. I swept it with a feather duster--and my heart nearly burst! The charcoal had never been fixed. His face was now little more than a faint tracing seen through smeared charcoal and dust . . . this still secret self-portrait was ruined." Goodbye Picasso, p. 2.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 8:09 AM on June 11, 2018 [1 favorite]


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