Max desfor biography

          Max Desfor (November 8, – February 19, ) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his Korean War photograph.

        1. Desfor was born on Nov. 8, , in the Bronx and attended Brooklyn College.
        2. Biographical/historical note Max Desfor was.
        3. After serving as a combat photographer in World War II, he volunteered to cover the Korean War for the news service when the North invaded the.
        4. Max Desfor was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his Korean War photograph, Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea, depicting Pyongyang residents and refugees crawling over a destroyed bridge across the.

          5. Biographical/historical note Max Desfor was....

          Max Desfor

          American photographer (1913–2018)

          Max Desfor (November 8, 1913 – February 19, 2018) was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his Korean War photograph, Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea, depicting Pyongyang residents and refugees crawling over a destroyed bridge across the Taedong River to escape the advancing Chinese Communist troops.

          Background

          Desfor was born on November 8, 1913, in The Bronx, New York, the son of Jewish emigrants, his father from Russia and his mother from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After graduating New Utrecht High School, he attended Brooklyn College for only a year then quit.

          For his photographic coverage of the Korean War, an outstanding example of which is, "Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea.".

          He began working as a messenger with the Associated Press (AP), where his brother was a photo retoucher. Desfor taught himself photography basics and was hired as a staff photographer in 1938. Initially based in Baltimore, he moved to the Washington, D.C., bureau a year later.[1]

          Career

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