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Last of Breed.(David Douglas Duncan)(Obituary)

Vanity Fair

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Byline: David Friend

Though a Kansas City boy at heart, photojournalist David Douglas Duncan, 91, has been living near Cannes for 45 years, first drawn to the region by his pal Pablo Picasso. Duncan, renowned for taking classic photographs during World War II, then in Korea, then in Vietnam, first stopped by the artist's home in 1956, en route to an assignment shooting the Berbers of northern Morocco. (A mutual friend, war photographer Robert Capa, had urged Duncan to "look up Picasso and tell him I sent you.") Soon, these giants of the canvas and the lens became fast friends, and Picasso, taking a fancy to Duncan's dachshund, Lump, adopted the dog as a miniature muse, incorporating his likeness into scores of paintings. The ubiquitous dachshund is still with us, thanks to Picasso's art and to Duncan's latest book, Picasso and Lump (Bulfinch), which celebrates the close, mischievous relationship between painter and pooch.

The indefatigable Duncan was once described as equal parts "frank, shy, and friendly" by the writer John Gunther, who was quick to counter assertions that the cultured, elegant ex-Marine "was [in any way] effete. He had hands that look as if he spent the morning ... tossing bulldozers around for fun." ...

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