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Portrait of Howard Sochurek. (Photo by Howard Sochurek\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Howard Sochurek (1924-1994) was never satisfied with his own work. “When I finish a story, I usually feel I am just about qualified to begin it because I have learned so much.” As General Douglas MacArthur’s photo assignment officer at the end of World War II, he got to take only one exposure of Emperor Hirohito. LIFE had several options but ran Sochurek’s shot. After the war he was just one year away from a Princeton degree when, despite the expectations of his family, he went to work as a newspaper photographer instead. LIFE hired him to cover the war in Korea; even though he lacked training, he parachuted out of a C-119 behind enemy lines. When his mother fell ill, Sochurek left his post in Indochina to see her. <\/span>Robert Capa<\/span><\/a> filled in for him\u2014and was killed by a land mine. \u201cI felt I was responsible,” Sochurek said. “That was my beat he was covering.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Poet Robert Frost standing in Oxford field with his hand over his face. (Photo by Howard Sochurek\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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Public school students taking rhythmic dance class. (Photo by Howard Sochurek\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Howard Sochurek (1924-1994) was never satisfied with his own work. “When I finish a story, I usually feel I am just about qualified to begin it because I have learned so much.” As General Douglas MacArthur’s photo assignment officer at the end of World War II, he got to take only one exposure of Emperor … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5354801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5354402","photographer","type-photographer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Photography of Howard Sochurek | LIFE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about Howard Sochurek, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/howard-sochurek\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Photography of Howard Sochurek | LIFE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Learn about Howard Sochurek, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/howard-sochurek\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"LIFE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-10-22T20:07:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/14172552\/Soc_E_IC-e1571073952381.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2451\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1618\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/howard-sochurek\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/howard-sochurek\/\",\"name\":\"The Photography of Howard Sochurek | LIFE\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/howard-sochurek\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/howard-sochurek\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/14172552\/Soc_E_IC-e1571073952381.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-14T17:26:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-10-22T20:07:08+00:00\",\"description\":\"Learn about Howard Sochurek, one of the many photographers for LIFE who captured some of the most iconic pictures from the US & around the World.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/howard-sochurek\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/howard-sochurek\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/howard-sochurek\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/14172552\/Soc_E_IC-e1571073952381.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/14172552\/Soc_E_IC-e1571073952381.jpg\",\"width\":2451,\"height\":1618,\"caption\":\"African-American student Virginius B. 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