David Douglas Duncan, the renowned war photographer (born in 1916 in Kansas City, Missouri) covered the Second World War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. After war broke out in Korea on June 25th 1950, Duncan was embedded with the US Marines. His photographs of Marines, Korean evacuees, crowds of victims and many other scenes were published in Life magazine helping raise international awareness of the Korean War and its

horrors. “I wanted to show what war did to a man.” This quote represents what the photographer intended to convey through his photographs. He believed that this was best done without captions. Duncan compiled his photographs of Korea and published the book ‘This is War!’ and presented the exhibition ‘Korea: The Impact of War’ at the museum of Modern Art in New York in 1951. An exhibition of David Douglas Duncan’s photos of the Korean War was presented at Visa pour l’Image - Perpignan in 2008, and in 2017, he donated 30 photos to the United Nations Peace Memorial.

David Douglas Duncan passed away June 7th, 2018 in the South of France, where he lived his final days in peace. We at the United Nations Peace Memorial recognize the significance of these photos and are profoundly grateful for the generous donation made by Mr. Duncan.

「This Is War!: A Photo-Narrative of the Korean War, written by Douglas Duncan in 1990」 can be viewed as an e-book on the United Nations Peace Memorial website. 
https://www.unpm.or.kr/un2022/ebook/This_is_war/index.html

ⓒ 2017. David Douglas Duncan, United Nations Peace Memorial. All rights reserved. All pictures cannot be copied without permission.