Max Desfor, 104, War Photographer at Midcentury, Is Dead – The New York Times

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Max Desfor, 104, War Photographer at Midcentury, Is Dead

Mr. Desfor’s photo of hundreds of Korean War refugees crawling across a damaged bridge in 1950 helped win him a Pulitzer Prize.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/obituaries/max-desfor-104-war-photographer-at-midcentury-is-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

“We came across this incredible sight,” Mr. Desfor said in 1997 for an A.P. oral history. “All of these people who are literally crawling through these broken-down girders of the bridge. They were in and out of it, on top, underneath, and just barely escaping the freezing water.”