PHOTOGRAPHER

David Douglas Duncan

1916 - 2018

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David Douglas Duncan (January 23, 1916 – June 7, 2018) was an American photojournalist, known for his dramatic combat photographs, as well as for his extensive domestic photography of Pablo Picasso and his wife Jacqueline. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Douglas Duncan has received more than 172,945 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). David Douglas Duncan is the 98th most popular photographer (down from 89th in 2019), the 5,962nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,879th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Photographer.

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  • 49.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, David Douglas Duncan ranks 98 out of 148. Before him are Joel-Peter Witkin, Willy Ronis, Henry Peach Robinson, Mary Ellen Mark, Roman Vishniac, and Bob Guccione. After him are Mario Testino, Alexander Gardner, Hedi Slimane, Erwin Olaf, Garry Winogrand, and Lucien Clergue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, David Douglas Duncan ranks 183. Before him are David White, Robert H. Dicke, Lou Thesz, Van Johnson, Pierre Emmanuel, and Ralph Nelson. After him are Josef Gauchel, S. Yizhar, Rong Yiren, Bernard Heuvelmans, Runer Jonsson, and Dinah Shore. Among people deceased in 2018, David Douglas Duncan ranks 275. Before him are Ehsan Yarshater, Rosenda Monteros, Lawrence Roberts, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Lucian Pintilie, and Anne Treisman. After him are Ringo Lam, Sergio Pitol, Yurik Vardanyan, Hans Günter Winkler, Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, and Tomasz Stańko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Douglas Duncan ranks 5,962 out of 20,380. Before him are Eddie Cantor (1892), Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798), Gina Carano (1982), Lucretia Garfield (1832), Quanah Parker (1845), and Ralph Nelson (1916). After him are John Kuck (1905), Junior Wells (1934), Terence Trent D'Arby (1962), Raymond Scott (1908), Ollie Johnston (1912), and David Gale (1921).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, David Douglas Duncan ranks 28. Before him are William Eggleston (1939), Spencer Tunick (1967), Karl Struss (1886), Joel-Peter Witkin (1939), Mary Ellen Mark (1940), and Bob Guccione (1930). After him are Garry Winogrand (1928), F. Holland Day (1864), Bert Stern (1929), William P. Gottlieb (1917), Martha Cooper (1943), and Sally Mann (1951).

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