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

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.

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“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.”

February 22, 2018
Former AP photographer Max Desfor dies at 104

Correction: Obit-Desfor story

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story Feb. 19 about the death of former Associated Press photographer Max Desfor, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Desfor’s wife Clara died in 2004. She died in 1994. A corrected version of the story is below: Former A

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Former Associated Press photographer Max Desfor, whose photo of hundreds of Korean War refugees crawling across a damaged bridge in 1950 helped win him a Pulitzer Prize, died Monday. He was 104

February 21, 2018