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

Max Desfor, 104, War Photographer at Midcentury, Is Dead
Max Desfor, an Associated Press photographer whose image of hundreds of Korean War refugees crawling across
a damaged bridge in 1950 helped win him a Pulitzer Prize, died on Monday at his home in Silver Spring, Md.
It was just that cold.”
The Pulitzer jury in 1951 determined that Mr. Desfor’s photos from Korea had “all the qualities which make for distinguished news photography — imagination, disregard for personal safety, perception of human interest
and the ability to make the camera tell the whole story.”
The Pulitzer board honored his overall coverage of the war, based on a portfolio of more than 50 photos,
and cited the Taedong River bridge shot in particular.
Mr. Desfor’s photo of hundreds of Korean War refugees crawling across a damaged bridge in 1950 helped win him a Pulitzer Prize.
After the war Mr. Desfor was supervising editor of Wide World Photos, the A. P.
photo service, and returned to Asia in 1968 to be photo chief for the region.
Mr. Desfor volunteered to cover the Korean War for the news service when the North invaded the South in June 1950.