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Photographer Discusses Memories of Picasso

Aired January 6, 2001 - 8:56 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Well, most of us are familiar with the works of one of the great artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso. But what about the man himself?

CNN's Brian Palmer has the story of a famous photographer and his close-up access to the master of modernism.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN, PHOTOGRAPHER: That's the day we met. Here's a guy in his old-fashioned bathtub. He never seen me in his life before. Just like that, our friendship was like that. No embarrassment, no shyness.

BRIAN PALMER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When David Douglas Duncan met Pablo Picasso in 1956 at the artist's home in France, Duncan had already established himself as a world-traveling photojournalist.

DUNCAN: And I walked in and I didn't give a damn about anything, a painter. That was his problem. I was a photographer.

PALMER: The 75-year-old Picasso took instantly to the 40-year- old former marine from Kansas City, inviting him into his home and granting him access to his very private life, his family, friends and his work, access displayed in more than 50 of Duncan's photographs of Picasso made from 1956 to 1973, the year the artist died, photos exhibited at New York's Mitchell Innis & Nash Gallery (ph).

DUNCAN: I'd just be shooting. He'd paint or do whatever he did, or just think. Days would go by and probably we didn't exchange 15 words.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: He didn't allow other photographers access to his life. It's wonderful to see this long period of his life when he was at really one of his most creative periods, in a way.

DUNCAN: I said look, maestro, maestro, which is your favorite subject, blue period, rose period, cubist, reality, back to the time of the neo-classic back in 1923? Which is your favorite? You know what he did? I'll do it to you. Right in front of my face he put his hand. Which is my favorite finger? It's all related.

PALMER: The photos are a singular record of perhaps the 20th century's greatest artist at work. But for the 84-year-old Duncan, they also capture the bonds he shared with Picasso.

DUNCAN: He was a very great Spanish gentleman, a guy I respected, I loved.

PALMER: Brian Palmer, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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