Howard Sochurek
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Portrait, possibly a self-portrait, of Howard Sochurek in Vietnam, 1 January 1955
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| Born | 1924 Milwaukee |
| Died | April 25, 1994 (aged 69) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Liver Cancer |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Years active | 1950–1990 |
| Spouse(s) | Tania Sochurek |
| Awards | Robert Capa Gold Medal |
Howard Sochurek (27 November 1924 – 25 April 1994), was an American photojournalist.
Howard J. Sochurek was born in 1924 in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He graduated from Princeton University in 1942 then enlisted on December 1 that year to fight in the Second World War.
On return from war, Sochurek first found work with the Milwaukee Journal, then in 1950 secured a position as staff photographer with Life magazine, going on to work from their New York, Chicago, Detroit, New Delhi, Singapore and Paris offices, and for National Geographic, photographing for stories on the Soviet Union, where in 1959 he covered a visit by Christian Dior fashion models to GUM, the ‘USSR’s premier department store’, on the Middle East, on nationalist Chinese ‘Boy Battalion’ soldiers in Formosa (1951), traveling also to Mongolia (1962) and Vietnam (1953).
At home, he photographed Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Frost in 1957, Richard Nixon’s presidential election campaign (1960), Henry Kissinger, and black student activists with Martin Luther King Jr. (1960).
During the Korean War he was parachuted with the 187th Airborne RCT behind enemy lines to photograph American troops, and was sent in 1952 to cover the First Indochina War, documenting the French defeat at Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and subsequently, the Vietnam War.
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